THANK YOU BRAVE HEARTS!

                             THANK YOU BRAVE HEARTS!

Life is a beautiful thing and no matter how many times you say it, the fact doesn't change.To enjoy the beauty of life,you need to give wings to your imagination that flies without limits and give freedom to your heart that roams without fear.But is it as easy as it is said?Certainly not.As someone said, "Freedom is not free, it costs the lives of soldiers." A bit of introspection in our lives will reveal the fact that we enjoy a lot of freedom.The freedom for which we don't have to fight because 'someone' else, whom we don't even know, fought for it and  that 'someone' still continues to safeguard our freedom.
                      
                             That engineer who is revlotuionalising the world,that doctor who is saving thousands of lives,that architect who is shaping our dreams,that sportsperson who brings smiles on the millions of faces, that politician who has the dare to speak about the armed forces in a disrespectful way, are all doing things with no constraints because that 'someone' is standing tall at the borders,ensuring our safety and is even going to the extent of going down in glory,if need be, in the fight with evil and serves the nation selflessly like a mother's love. All he expects in return is the victory of his nation.The sight of the tricolor fluttering high will give him happiness like no other thing and the chant of his motherland is good enough to boost his morale.
                     
                            No matter how much you praise him,the soldier,the 'someone' that I am talking about, still deserves to be praised and still deserves to be thanked for every breath that we take.The dreams and aspirations that every individual has, blossom into reality because of those brave hearts that are ever willing to protect us from the clutches of evil.
                  
                            You may proclaim that you are great because you may be able to make machines do things that men can, you may invent things that mankind has never imagined of, you may be able to crack the toughest of Mathematical problems, you may win millions of hearts by playing the instrument that you love to play and you may be able to earn plethora of money that people crave for.

                             Have you ever wondered why you were able to do all these? Has your mind ever bothered to think in terms of what made all these a reality?Oh, why am I even asking you this?The freedom that helps you in achieving all these is like dad's money.We enjoy it to the fullest and turn a blind eye to the people giving it to us.We never know its actual value until we start earning it.
        
                            These brave hearts are wheels on which the nation runs.They go to any extent to see their motherland flourish and will even be ready to save it from the wrath of nature. 

                    Having said all this, do I expect you to praise them?No,Not at all. I don't have to expect you to do that.Their deeds command that.All that I ask you to do is respect the men in Armed Forces.You don't even have to salute them like the way they do.Feel grateful to them.Thank them.Realise the fact that all that you are and all that you enjoy is because of the tears of blood that they shed to give you the freedom and to give you the platform to grow in whichever field you aspire to.You don't even have to say it loud.Let your souls say:

           "THANK YOU BRAVE HEARTS!"

                                                            -SATYA SRINIVAS J

Why do I still think of you???

                                     Why do I still think of you???    

Life is such a beautiful and exciting thing that never tells you what's in store for you for tomorrow and the fact that it keeps you waiting makes it all the more exciting!
It throws some random moments, hides behind a wall and sees if you can transform those moments into memories and on few other occasions, it takes you blindfolded and you open your eyes only to find yourself in the company of someone new and yet again, you find it nowhere in the picture as it finds itself a hiding place and all it does is see if that someone new can turn out to be someone "Special"!

                              All these happen amidst the stereotypical and hectic life that we go through.Turn a blind eye to these moments and you will miss some of the potentially beautiful memories. As I was riding on the roller coaster called life, you appeared in my visible region one day and I paid no attention to you not knowing the fact that you would mean so much to me this day.Time melted off gradually and without even giving a hint, you caught my attention and I realised that you are no longer just another person.The foundation for the building called liking was laid then and there. A new  activity of stealing a couple of looks at you and praising your beauty thereafter became a part of my routine.Some part of my time used to skid off with me wondering about how a human can be so beautiful and some other part of it would keep me occupied dreaming of the day when I would strike a conversation with you.It was only later that I realised that it would take so long for us to break the ice between us.

                           As I struggled to find a way of going past the barrier called shyness,I still used to let my eyes have the pleasure of seeing you.But long before I could feel contented about enjoying seeing your beauty,your eyes used to meet mine even before we met and embarrassment used to leave me kicking myself for getting caught staring at you.My eyes would, then, look elsewhere only for few moments ,though, as keeping them away from your magnet like beauty seemed next only to impossible.Hearing a few words spoken by you used to ring the bells of excitement and they used to reiterate in my ears for long.Every little thing you did used to win my attention and at the end of the day, thoughts of you would make me slide into sleep and I used to enter the land of dreams where I used to enjoy spending time with you and used to cherish every little thing that we did together.
               
                             It took long for me to realise, one day, that you were actually talking to me in reality.I couldn't believe what was happening but neither was I too idiotic to let this moment fade away.What followed thereafter were endless conversations and memories that are too good to fade.
                                           
                                                 My liking towards you increased with each day passing by but then I am not too blind to overlook my principles of not being in a relationship at this stage.So, no matter how much I like you, I know I am not going to be in a relationship with you.But, one question still remains unanswered:

                  Why do I still think of you?

                                                                    -Satya Srinivas J
       

IN THE LAPS OF MEMORIES -THE JOURNEY OF MY COLLEGE DAYS.

             IN THE LAPS OF MEMORIES

                                -THE JOURNEY OF MY COLLEGE DAYS 

Life is a beautiful journey in which some paths merge and diverge at some point of time.As life passes by like a soft, cool breeze,memorable moments and memories keep life alive.As it unfolds itself,new persons and experiences enlighten this journey and as time flies,they become an integral part of it.Right from the stage of being an innocent kid, friends begin to expand your space called family by becoming a part of it and from then on,it only keeps on growing.Of the many stages that are part of this beautiful journey, college life holds a special place in our hearts.
                         The journey of my college life took birth in the year 2012.Standing at the crossroads of dilemma, wondering about the path to choose, and not getting carried away by the engineering mania, we chose to become science graduates and so that laid the foundation for what would turn out to be a beautiful phase of 3 years at Gayatri Vidya Parishad.Putting on the uniform with a feel of excitement,I found myself enclosed in a classroom surrounded by total strangers,who were unimagined of till then.Days began to scamper and the strangeness slowly began to fade away as we got to know each other.I realised that there were some girls in the class that I am in,which happened for the first time and as predictable, my eyes, often, steered my attention towards the beautiful creation of god.Classes,teachers and the never ending seminars made it look like a stereotypical thing but it didn't take long before we began to skip a few classes to imitate our cricket stars on the fields.Very soon, internal exams and practical exams got us busy and in no time, the monsters called semester exams devilishly smiled at us.After having fought hard with them, we realised that we had already gone through the first phase of our first year and after a bit of gap,the second semester got kick started.Looking out of the windows unable to understand what was taught in the classes,stealing a couple of glances at girls and skipping a few more classes became a routine of the second semester and the first year became a part of our history in the wink of an eye.
                            After a phase of a month and a half of holidays,all roads led to our college as we became seniors and it was time for us to welcome our juniors with a spice of college life.No sooner did we begin to savour our second year than the prevailing political conditions played spoilsport in our college life for about a couple of months as we were restricted to our houses, thanks to the political conditions.God knows how we wrote the exams thereafter!The second semester of the second year was no different if not for the fact that we turned out even naughtier cracking jokes in classrooms,hanging out more on the fields and at beaches,chasing the teachers to get our records signed and not to forget,the last minute preparations for exams and of course the funny answers we used to give during viva-voce.On the other hand,various competitions graced our excellence in various fields and cultural programs like farewell day for our seniors and the annual day saw fun breaking through all the limits.
                                    The first semester of the third and the final year began making us aware of the fact that we will be going through litmus tests called the 'campus placements' to make it into the reputed companies about which we only hear of in the television sets and internet.As time melted off,the big days of campus placements challenged us and some of us proved our mettle to find a way to become a part of the giants of the IT sector.Then arrived the final semester of the final year.I will call it the most memorable phase of our college lives. Realising that they were the last few months that we would be spending together, we hung out at beaches and parks often and our conversations with girls got prolonged and the barriers called shyness got demolished.Birthday celebrations springed in every now and then and we didn't need any reasons to rejoice the time that we spent together.
                                All of a sudden,the calendar displayed the date to be the 7th of March,2015 and it was our farewell day!Some of us were like "Oh my god! Is it true that we have spent three years in the college already?" and going past the amusement,we got set for an enthralling farewell and what followed thereafter was an evening that will remain etched in our hearts for long.Excitement, fun and celebrations went to the peak stage as we shouted,danced,rejoiced and posed for hundreds of pictures with our friends and it was an evening that we will cherish for long.Practical exams and the theory exams got us busy for one last time during our college days and all sorts of emotions broke free as we hung out at the beach after the last exam.Priceless hugs marked the occasion and invaluable tears rolled down as darkness set in on the last day of our college lives and that made us realise the kind of affection that we have for each other.
                                  Now as we look back at the three years that we have spent together, we realise that we have spent a portion of our lives in the most memorable way possible and we have got into a relationship that will last a lifetime.At this juncture, I get reminded of what an Indian author, Ravinder Singh, said,"Don't cry because it is over.Instead, smile because it had happened."
                            So, as I sit back gazing at the vacuum,recalling all the beautiful memories of our college life, and as I wonder whether to cry as our college life has come to an end or to smile for the endless and the priceless memories that it has given us, my heart said,

                        "I WILL CHOOSE THE LATTER." 

                                                     -SATYA SRINIVAS.J