I don’t know if the title above is the suitable one for what i’ll be writing now.. but it is about things that would never ever change.. coz they are ‘in photos’:) “Memories”- This is one of the fewest things which everyone on this earth will have in common.. comes free of cost after all..! Last night i was going through the photos in my comp.. most from college days. Hmm..it feels strange to call them ‘college days’ now.. Fact is, since my house is very near to college, it doesn’t feel so it is over. I don’t know if i will get that nostalgic feeling once i leave Tumkur and go to Bangalore. But i’m very much sure that i miss something these days.. may be it is the routine of getting up early to get ready to college, those labs, lectures or the IEEE or ICHO work. I don’t know exactly....
Photos for every occasion. If not for these, may be it would’ve been on one’s own imagination to recall things and visualise them in mind.. that would’ve been on the creative side and would’ve been a test of memory also..but now that we have photos, that too with digital cameras ruling, there is no chance for these ‘memories’ to take any other form and shape.. But i must say that i’m not one of those photo freaks type who would want to click anything and everything! I just wonder at the very enthusiasm of some people who take so many photos and also pose for soo many! I like photography. Taking snapshots. But not posing for one!(coz i don’t have a photogenic face and it’s difficult for me to smile also when i don’t feel like! )so, it’s natural that not anyone would be pointing at my photo if it’s a group photo coz i’l be having one of those ‘serious’ looks ( i don’t know if it scares some people! ).. I can count the number of photos in my collection in which i’ve smiled properly. :p (this is, taken my sooo many childhood snaps also into account!)
As far as college days at SIT are concerned, the very first photo session we had in our class was on our first ethnic day of engineering.. A new experience.. most of the girls in saree and boys in traditional attire + several other costumes were a thing of curiosity for me.. i have always wanted to know about different cultures in our country and so i had wanted to observe every new kind of traditional dress.. and i did observe also.. and we had the first group photo of our class that day.. Hmm.. looking at that, especially me, i feel both happy and sad at the fact that i’ve not changed much even after four years.. i look the same.. happy coz, people can recognise me even now..sad coz i have to listen to everyone telling me to add weight atleast now! Hmm.. i seriously don’t know when is that going to happen..:)
Once after that, we have had photos for everything.. whether it was in trips and tours or treats or in class room or in labs and even when waiting for our turn for the interview during placements.. and needless to mention once after placed.. as i told, i’ve neither clicked nor am i there in many photos but i’ve seen people taking photos during placements also.. now i feel if i had taken a photo then, i could’ve measured the anxiety on my face and everyone else’s also.. missed it.. anyways, i can describe it vividly so that one can imagine it! That is the topic for a separate blog post..:)
The thing about photos is that, once you look at one, everything associated with the persons in that, the place and the purpose of that very photo taken everything flashes so fast in mind that one can wonder at one’s own capacity to remember things..what must be the capacity of the hard disk of our brain!! Those things never change.. the memories, the feelings will remain forever. It seems as though we relive every moment of that occasion just by looking at those photos.. Thanks to technology..
Hmm... don’t know what everyone who studied with us are doing now. . But if there is one thing that everyone of us would be having in common it would be ‘memories’. Be it a great feeling of being together with everyone or that ill feeling for something gone wrong, be it the results or a small fight with the friend or anything, time fades it all..but the memories would never fade.. once in a while look at the photos, would remind us of all that.. the days gone by...... It did remind me.. and so this write up..:)
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