Sunday, July 22, 2007

I am 6 year's old


It was a late start of the day, I got up at 9.00 am finally after snoozing the clock three times! Thinking about work, I hurriedly tidied up myself. After that 20 minute rush, Aadat song by Aatif cheered up my drive to work. When I got to my desk at work, the first thing that I noticed was the date......24th July 2007. Ooh my god.....I was awestruck! I couldn't believe it. Were those really six years in US???

I took a moment to think over my past six years, going for a coffee. It was hard to believe that the time can fly by so fast. These six years were probably most decisive years. I could feel each and every moment running down the memory lane. I could smell the fresh cut grass from the lawns of the house that I moved in with my friends as a newcomer. I could taste that first rajmah and chawal we made without missing a single step from a recipe book. I could feel that exact silence from a tiring walk after on-campus dish-washing job at the university canteen. I could feel the real heartache of spending hard earned single dollar for a coffee in that chilly winter night. I could feel my heavy hands and those tiring eyes after a long night spent at the research lab trying to finish the week's work in that night fearing the advisor's look at the weekly meeting the next day. I could remember each and every single scene from a movie that we friends watched countless number of times over and over every day. And many more....just felt like I am living those moments again. Back at that time it had felt like all that I was doing had no sense to what I had come here for. But now looking back, everything makes sense. Each thing that happened had some significance and had an impact on what happened next.

If someone had told me then, what I would be in next six year's, I would have probably laughed at him. Well, may be I will still laugh at him....may be...just may be.

Were those happy six years? Were those sad six years? I don't know...but they probably were the best six years so far.

I quote today..."Life is livable only because it is full of surprises...so don't run away from those surprises"

Six year old!
-Manish