Re-living College days

Do you ever miss your college days? Those days when you get to experience all kinds that the life has to offer, some of which makes you wiser and smarter. Some of which moulds  you to being a good human. And some of which hits you hard until you realize it was but a big blunder. College life is one juncture of life that is full of memories both good and bad; One point of a life when you live like the whole world belongs to you, and you are the most carefree person with little tension and worry, with little or no responsibility at all, you have hell lot of time for leisure, perhaps the most cherished one although with less luxuries.  By the time you graduate, you have the enough resource to get on with life. You become matured both physically and mentally. Perhaps that’s why People often say college life as a golden period of their life.The mid night assignments and last hour preparations for the semester examination, the maximum hours of your time glued to television series on laptop screen, the unending flirts and chats on various social media, the meager amount of stipend that you survive on and the times of boring lecture periods at the back of benches some how moulds you to be ready to face the real world of quacks and qualms. It tests you to thrive through the sands of harsh and unfair realities. The years of grilling through project works and assignments make you find joys even in the midst of tough and rough times. The wide range of experiences that we go through in college day in a way prepares us to tackle and face the world after wards.

For me in particular, college life has been an eye opening experience. As a young kid coming from the remote and thick jungles, the crowded and polluted streets of an Indian town almost came as a shock, but despite that I learnt to assimilate and adjust for that’s what I learnt al least from the jungles while living with the cattle in rains and sun and storms.  The soaring temperatures above 40 degree Celsius only made it worse. But it was all worth i would say. Four years of engineering course is not a short one but in a good environment with right friends time flies so fast. We had seniors who helped and cared like own family, juniors who respected and we existed like a giant family. Even after the college days, we often get-together and find time to relive and share the memories from past and present. Despite all of us being settled with own families, priorities and work, we still try to come together over cup of tea or over glass of beer through occasions like the baby showers. It’s nice to re-live those moments, visit those good lanes of memories we have had as a family in the college.

 Just recently we had a good time in one of our friend’s house. Over cases of bear and wine, we talked a lot from school times to college to present stage where we are all scattered in different world of work. As saying on Dzongkha goes on: ཆང་མར་འཛུལ་གཏམ་ཡར་མཐོན་(as the wine (alcohol) goes down, talks come up). The secrets and stories were shared and we had actually an amazing moment even if were for a moment. It was almost 0200 am by the time we departed. Even the bottles of beer that we drank was gone. But the good quality time we have had, the moments that we rejoiced would remain in one corner of our hearts.