@categorical_imp: The Inebriated End...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Inebriated End...

My mind was spiralling away... Thoughts skidded through at breakneck pace. My life, and more importantly the past two months, flashed in monochrome. I felt like I had been hit by a Humvee or worse, a hangover which had turned uglier than usual. The things I have done and the things I should have... The colours ebbed away and I felt my life wrung out; drained of hue... Everything was turning black and white. The last stoke of green and droplet of red were moving away, just out of my reach... I forced my eyes open, conceding to the end - what had been two lovely months was just inspiring its last great gasp.

The black was replaced by a blob of brown and some pastel shades of green and yellow. A cuboidal white entered the periphery of my vision. I squeezed my eyes until they watered and resigned to my new, yet familiar, life. As I looked past the globular rubber brown, the strange smelling pastes of yellow - I saw my own face. Strange property of light - this reflection. You see yourself; yet it isn't you. I saw myself shades sadder; mournful - a face feeling relegation. Or was it true?

It was then that I realized that I had been staring at the rotis and urghh... dal on the quintessential stainless steel. I observed the vanilla melt. The reflection was actually my face. I was back here - it was no nightmare. I have oft longed to return to Roorkee but today - the great demise - wasn't one of those days. It was a day I also realized that one half of my engineering life was over and the secong innings had begun! It was the day I finally decided that it was time to witness in awe the great wonders of true - Solani.

The putrid odours soon were in the past. The bizarre nighmares were forgotten. It is a new life, yet old, and I am back... It wasn't long before I recognized my love for this insti yet again. And how lucky the insti is to have people such as us! I love this place once more. It's good to be back.

Vive L'IIT.

9 comments:

  1. gr8 one.......two things da(u know how i use da)u need to check an opthalmologist and this post oozes with the beauty expected from a one inebriated(with boredom)

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  2. Brown, yellow, green- what are you really thinking of? Dear lord.

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  3. @ PiSRA,

    Thanks. An opthalmologist? Did I not perceive something correctly? Anyway, this post seemed a lot more beautiful when I wrote it, than now... Guess such things happen.

    @ Muud,

    You know... The stuff we get in the mess. And good to FINALLY have you on the comments column.

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  4. hah! fuh-nee!
    also one should not eat so close to one's plate.

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  5. @ Prachi,

    True true... I have consciously started distancing myself from the edibles.
    P.S. Nice to see you here.

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  6. A very similar feeling here too Anirudh!

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  7. @ PPT,

    Oh Yes. That seems to be the general consensus. But still I say, "It's good to be back!"

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  8. Your arbitest post yet.

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  9. @ Dela,

    Yes, I know... It's good to be arbit, after such a wait!

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