I was all excited about the Goa trip in my last post.. And now I am in Goa. Waiting for the fellows around me to get up and leave to some place!
We have been here for a couple of days now but did we have a lively couple of days? I am not sure what my answer would be.. People look changed as I see them from their earlier days. People change, have to change.. but still I find it a bit difficult to accept that their priorities have changed (so much).
3 or 4 years back, we would have loved to play a game of football in the 1st ground of school and then sit on the tiny wall tired and yet excited that we are together. We would then head to Uday’s home, sit on the compound wall and keep shouting for water. Usually an hour of football would be topped with a couple of hours of fun-filled updates and recollections from the B-section days.
The 2 days here, on the contrast, was filled with foods, drinks and … Unfortunately, I am not really fond of both and definitely not the drinks. Man! food and water are available everywhere on earth. The slow service here in restaurants didn’t help one bit! We have traveled some 200km on 2-wheeler in search of beaches, while one is next our hotel! Neither have we traveled to catch-up with some history of Goa nor did we sit back, relax and talk.
I was telling Purri that, everyone of us has become more defensive and demanding.. every small joke might be taken seriously and every small ‘want’ needs to be taken seriously! I demand we do something else.
Priorities have changed and we have been set into those thinking templates.. thanks to our lives. But, I still feel its always a matter of choice. 11 agreed to come, we are now 9. I am happy that most of us made it till here. I wish we make it memorable for all so that we come back again.
I did have my share of fine moments in the 2 days, especially the drive with Purri, faint recollections of 2nd standard with Tija and the chat with Uppi on Facebook. I enjoy my days here!
–buddi
