Friday, July 3, 2009

Getting started

It's almost time now. Yes,I have to go. I have waited (never expecting it and always hoping for it). Remember those days spent in suppressed consternation? Those misty days of Kalimpong that saw me fight to save a dream: a dream that was rapidly losing its relevance to me and to my world. How come I convinced relentless parents and an unforgiving fate, always bent on doing me some mischief? How did I restore the lost faith I had in god, a figure who seemed the least bothered by my plight?
My plight.
Ha!
Einstein once famously said that god plays his dice and we must oblige.
God had gifted me success! In the quizzing arena as well as in the class-room. Lots of it. And I was thankful.
Success, it seems in hindsight, got to my head.
And so I reversed all my victories. All of them.
To have gone down to that, to have reached rock-bottom and then having emerged the alive deserves complimenting.
I congratulate myself.
Now I am at the juncture of opening the latest vistas for myself. I am at MASCOM. To have reached here took loads of effort and resilience.
I have stuck around and won.
Thank god?
Ha!