"You have won it!!!!! You have won it!!!!" These words were ringing in my ears when suddenly i tripped over and fell. There was darkness all around.
The next thing I remember was I was lying on the floor, with a headache. Books scattered all around, clothes lying here and there and a room that seemed quite alien to me. When suddenly I remembered, it was my first night in Kota. The dreams had taken me to my school auditorium, where I had won the debate competition last year. Tears rolled on from my eyes as I woke up to alien conditions. I was in a place where the temperature was no less than 40 degrees on an average. Coming from Gangtok, I felt like I was literally stuffed into an oven.
Yes, an oven of over thousands of students, from different places. Lots of studies to be done. Stiff competition awaited me. But being the Thinker, I was never actually comfortable with the idea. No creative stuff to be done, no English lectures on Julius Caesar. How was I to survive???????
SCENE 2
The day had arrived. Results of my two year struggle were to arrive. Being in Singapore, I was awake 2 and a half hours earlier due to the time difference. The screen showed. AIR: 4929. That was it. After all initial doubts, I finally made up my mind to go to Dhanbad to study at Indian School of Mines. That too the branch of my dreams, Computer Science and Engineering.
SCENE 3
At around 9 in the morning, there was an announcement for students to have a meeting of the Speaker's club in around 6 in the evening. Some of my friends mocked me for my over enthusiasm to go to the meeting, saying that they have heard it to be non existant. It didnt turn me off though. Two years of complete isolation had made me so hungry for all this stuff that I was prepared to go to any limit to fulfill my creative needs. I reached there sharp at 6, to find just a handful of guys there. To know what happened next, read my next post......
Good beginning.... will be eagerly waitin for the next post...
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