HAPPY DAYS

“HAPPY DAYS”

Even as I get down to write this, my pencil moving across the paper, I realize that the clock is ticking away. Through seconds, minutes and hours, time will fly by just as it has all my life- especially the last two years.

Yes! My last two years! What do I say about it? Where do I find the words that would fill this page with the deepest feelings of my heart? Silence. That’s the only word that comes to my mind right now – when the feeling is profound and deep and the heart content, I realize that there can be no better way to describe it but through silence. So, “silently”,

I try to pen or rather “pencil down” my unexpressed feelings.

I had never ever imagined that engineering would bring out this creative aspect of mine- writing. So, I thought, what better way to pay tribute to engineering than by writing about it.

So where should I begin from??? My first tryst with failure? Or my awakening to the fact that engineering is about everything else but studying? Or about all those times when I had fallen into an abyss of sadness and yet managed to fight it off and gallop over to the acme of ecstasy? Over these two years, words like college, canteen, exam, submission, viva, practical, friends, study leave, professors no longer remained mere words but a memorable experience I would cherish for as long as I am alive.

Ah! I cannot write any more. Every single word evokes the same feelings in me as it does in you…

Time keeps ticking away. The sun rises and sets everyday. Watching a sunset is a beautiful feeling, isn’t it? The cool breeze blowing over you face. The warmth in your feet as you walk bare-foot on the sand. And then, getting your feet wet as you trudge

over to the sea to bid a final farewell to the sun. The last rays of the sun turning the sky orange- promising you that it will be there the next day and the day after –for eternity.

Yet, at the same beach, the sea washes away the imprints made on the sand. The sand trickles away from your fingers, no matter how hard you try to hold on, just like time.

That is what life is all about- moving on. Tomorrow we will let our lives lead us to our destinies. But the impressions made on our hearts will stay forever. And it will bring smiles on our faces and a lot many tears in our eyes every time we relive these days….