"First day of my 3rd year"

A day

Room No. H 858

My summer vacations were over and I headed towards VIT with excitement as it is going to be my 3^rd year and new challenges and opportunities were waiting for me but in the corner of heart I had nostalgic feeling of moving away from my family after such a lovely vacation.

I reached VIT at around 12 am on 13^th July, 2010. It was just another usual night at VIT never expecting what the morning had to offer me. I just arranged my wardrobe and made some space for myself to sleep.

It was around 6am when I woke up rubbing my eyes and while yawning I stepped towards the window. With my partially opened eyes looked at nature’s charisma and aura. The dwindling of my eyes and the restless body made me feel in the arms of nature. The clouds passing over the mountain touching them just like mother’s caress for her little one. The cold blowing breeze, the chirping birds, rustling of leaves was part of nature’s melody. Leaning over the window with an enormous smile ogled at the nature’s gambol.  I felt that oriel was an interface between heaven and me. I could look at the birds hopping from one tree to another and clouds osculating the mountains and I wish I could be in the midst of it. I felt that I have reached a hill station rather than VIT.

I was totally engrossed by nature’s charm and beauty and as I was falling for nature, at that moment my roommate scattered my dreams and I felt that she is moving away from me with her open arms just by his single line “what’s the time?” And that time I felt like kicking him on his butt and I turned back and said “uthjaa , we are late for class”. It was one of my best mornings of my life and as we were getting late for class, we hastened towards the mess and somehow managed to be in class on time “ first time in life J” and thanked God for such a marvelous start.

This miraculous moment permeated me with optimism and I was sure that I will again be in the midst of nature next morning. As there was a ray of hope which kept me delighted whole day.

What we need is the “ray” which can knock at your door in any form, the point that has to be kept in mind is that you have to do some labour to catch hold of that ray. i.e. you have to leave your couch and open your door and welcome it; then leave your mind and heart free and let your thoughts to fall freely and select the lightest one and load it on the arrow and shoot it in the line of collimation with ray and run after it with an eagle eye on the arrow and you will cross all impediments that come your way and achieve your goal.

It’s not the end it’s the beginning as you have to shoot a new arrow again and chase it.