First Person
  This short prose takes my thoughts back to the year 2002 when the entire world was in a phase of make over, it was the dawn of the new century a new millennium, everything seemed to be new, different and exciting. I too felt a similar line running through me, a phase of transformation, a major one in my life, from a bubbly adolescent to a stern youth, a time when decisions were to be taken which would become the base of my entire life…like any of my peers it was a bit heavy for me…my life had already started even before I realized it, this is when my parents and my mentor held my hands and guided me to GCC.

A brand new day it was 1st of August 2002,I walked into my new college, even though the college was very familiar to me, it was a very different atmosphere that day, a light tint of anxiety, pinch of fear, a drop or two of anticipation and loads of hope made a perfect combination for the first day'er look.

After a short meeting with the principal I headed towards my class, I stepped in, to my shock there were only girls in the class and a lecturer standing at the corner… with a silent entry I took the back seat wondering what had happen to all the boys in the class , then I heard the sound of footsteps …may be it sounded more like a marching army…it was a battalion of guys from the hostel…finally my pulse rate seem to return to normal and I could breath easy… we had a ice breaking session after which I was ice cold only to realize I was the only south Indian…Oh! My gosh!! The only south Indian.. I was an alien, everyone looked at me differently for the first time in my life, I felt out of place.. left out, I don't know what. Everyone around me spoke Hindi, familiar to my ears but absolutely strange to my tongue and my lips, hardly any talk,

people seemed to be living their own life and I watched on like a spectator… I knew I had to play, I cannot be a spectator all the time, the only game for me to learn was to speak Hindi, with all the little Hindi I know I started my game and thank god I never sat on the bench went in directly as player….

This is when I learnt to gel into a group, to understand people, to know what they want and give it to them and they will be with you. The fear and bondage within me to interact with a new group vanished since then. Ever since GCC has been a platform to many first things in my life and a person whom I looked upon was my mentor.

 
 

 

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