FAREWELLGoodbye is the most difficult word for me to say , not because its a tongue twister ( u don't think its diffult to say .. talk with a russian or a african , he'll tell ya how hard it is ...) .. but because of the thoughts dat associate with it the moment you say it . Think about it .. you are standing at your gate , wishing someone goodbye , you immediately think about the time you spent with them . With some uve spent a few minutes , with some , a few days , and some rare ones , years .... With the time spent with that person , the goodbyes become more tougher .. in fact reach different stratas of tough . You start reminiscing of the countless moments that have been etched in your memories for ever ... some good some bad .. but memories which you probably will pick out one after another one a lonely evening.
Everyone has those goodbyes ... First it's with the school friends , some of whom you probably won't meet for the rest of your life , but talk about ,with the ones you are in touch with .For the some lucky ones the school friends go on to become college friends .. For some like me .. its a fresh start all over again .. Ive had the good fortune though , to have some very close friends who've found it important to keep in touch but still every goodbye is still as tough .
Then comes graduation day , the people uve studied with for 3-4 years are going to go away their separate ways . There are two kinds of goodbyes here too . For the ones in day colleges , who don't even know half their class its not dat big a deal , except for their own group mates whom im certain theyr bound to meet sometime soon again .Now for the medical and engineering students who are mostly hostelites . That means they are stuck so to speak with their batchmates day in day out for 4-5 years , the duration of their course . All the good times and bad times are spent with those guys and gals . The bonds are definately stronger there because the crowd there is from all parts of the country and chances are that after graduating you won't be meeting them for a long time , maybe for ever .
That i guess is the cause of a tradition common to almost all schools and colleges . The tradition called farewell . I had talked about only the batchmates in the preceding paragraphs , for a special reason . Think about your juniors , who follow your every move , trying to grasp that one clue howto get through what you've already been through . The juniors , some for whom you are more of an elder brother than just another senior , for some of whom a teacher , for others , friends . Its not only your batchmates whose lives you affect in those 4-5 years , but also your juniors , who look up for inspiration from your every word and movement and to whom you can pass on that precious tips who've accumulated through your own troubles or mayb , the ones which were passed onto you through your own seniors .
Farewell , as the word suggests is a goodbye reframed . Basically a gimmick designed by softies who coudn't say goodbye to their loved ones .. again i mention here loved ones coz they are loved .. whose memories will be cherished long after you've passed out , whose stories you will recount to your children perhaps .. perhaps even your grandchildren , for how many fairytales can you conjure up afterall .
Coming back to the point . More than a tradition which people have to follow , its more a way of thanking the seniors , for all theyve done and been . This would have looked better if I had written this somehtime last time , when i was also a junior , But yeah definitely do understand . This is my way of saying thank you . ..
Ive been lucky enough to have a set of extremely helpful and caring juniors , more than i can say for myself .. But the way they've treated us these 3 years together , the respect they've accorded , the friends that some of them have become is really astonishing ..
The farewell they gave us was one out of this world . If theres one list i would be asked to make of the best memories of my entire stay in my college , the farewell would definitely be somewhere at the top .
Lets tell you about my farewell
A pool side party , a memento for every individual , special mentions and tidbits about some of us , their coming upto us and saying that we meant a lot to them really says something .To top it , we had our own in house DJ's playing away one hit after another . Was a long time since i had really gone wild . Was special in more than one ways .. I was thrown in the pool .. so were many others .. others simply jumped in .. ! what better way to cool off than a dip in the pool at 11 at night ..! This was probably the last time we were all gonna dance together , last party at this place , last happy memory together probably .... and nobody wantedit to go out with a whimper .. very soon everyone was on their feet dancing , or if they couldn't just moving their body the best they could ... but they were up and dancing on the beats of "hil hil ke nacho nacho .."
All in all a fantastic night I won't forget for a long long time .. !!
Thank you to all the juniors ... who made this particular goodbye so very easy on me .. thank you for everything ...
