The Last Everything

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April fool’s day just went by. Having a reputation of being a prankster, this was a relatively silent April fools day for me. It passed and vanished into thin air. The next day, while surfing on the web, I read a friend’s status saying ” last month @ IITGN “. And then it struck me, It was the last April fools day with all my fools around me . And slowly the feeling sunk in deeper. What else is last? What else is about to get over? What else will never be seen again? And then I got hold of the phrase. It is the last of everything.

The classes we don’t usually go daily, to the wifi internet speed we so religiously crave for, this will be the last of it. The abuses we hurl in the morning after seeing the surprises left in the toilets , to the empty buckets we so carefully steal from other rooms, this will be the last of it. The walk to the mess and then the  walk back to the sheds afterwards, this will be the last of it. The rounds of GPL for celebration to the futsal matches at night, this will be the last of it. Getting all hungry and flooding Dominoes on an offer day , to the silent night outs at the canal, this will be the last of everything.

Getting out of this place will not be easy for us. It will not be a smooth change. After all, we have spent a decade of 4 years of the most crucial phase of our lives in here. We have seen each other grown from kids to adults. We have seen each other’s faults and shortcomings and we have also seen people overcoming them. As the world is opening doors for us, we feel we are not ready. How can we be ! We can’t even speak a sentence without any abusive words in it. We can’t even wake up without our room mates alarm ringing. We can’t even live without our laptops for one second. But sadly, we have to. We aren’t prepared for it but heck, we are not afraid of it. Life goes on.

One month time and then it will be over. It’s like reading the Harry Potter books and you don’t want J.K. Rowling to stop writing those. But rather than thinking about it over and over, we have to enjoy every second of it. It will be an emotional ride but a ride is always fun. I have this image in my mind which I think I can relate to everyone out there. On the day we will leave this institute, we would have the same sentiments which Harry had when Hermione asked him about how he was feeling before going home at the end of the first year? And Harry answered- I am not going home. I am going away from home.

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