My longest night

Seeing is believing, rightly they say. The movie 'Inception', reminded me of many of my dreams where things actually happened much faster than they do in real life. I remember living days in a dream of hardly half an hour. But this time, I was aghast with the speed of my dreams. I couldn't believe what I saw yesternight was a content of just one dream. I lived my whole life in less than 8 hours. After getting up in the morning I could remember each and every character in my life which faded in my mind ages ago...

It all started from when I came to my senses. I got pampered by relatives and neighbours and my sister's class teacher Pushpa madam even well before I started going to school; listened to endless fairy tales from my grandma and told horrible fairy tales to elderly people (created n directed by me only). I played in the streets with my childhood pals... khokho, hide n seek, chor police, pakdam pakdai, chain chain, poshampa n wat not; played in and out of streets with my boyhood friends... marbles, cricket, lame football, gilli danda. I broke glasses, entered neighbours' houses climbing boundaries, ran full swing with dogs behind my butts, got bitten by a monkey, got deadly injections; learnt riding a bicycle, ran into accidents on bicycle, got into fight with street boys and told my parents about some random imaginary big guy who came and beat all of us.
I got admission into KMS on the basis of a test in which I left a question on kinds of soil just because I was told about 'types' of soil earlier. I got harassed by the overload in new school, made new friends there, proved to be the worse student in first few months and 'gem' of my class teachers eyes some months later; got worst slap of my life from my English teacher in 5th standard for obtaining 19 marks out of 20; almost wet my pants. I got beaten up by a girl of my class, but a different section, just for running inside the campus as she was the head girl then; took my revenge in 7th std. where I got to slap her as hard as I have till date. I met my best primary teachers Santosh madam and Ranjana madam; met Vijay, my most longing pal.

I got boxed in my belly in beginning of 6th std. for telling Sarabjeet that Mohit was caught stealing pens in previous class; got my first exposure to non veg terms, jokes and such parlance. I was queued up with all others numerous times for one reason or the other. I got scolded, got beaten up, was punished, was awarded. I met my most happening and friendliest teacher Mr. SN kishore. I imitated Kishore sir, Radheshyaam sir, got caught doing that, was beaten up again. I made sure my mom doesn't get to know that. I was sent out of class for disturbing; was sent farther away from class for disturbing from outside too. I got 'brilliant' remarks from Radheshyam sir for solving grammar questions in 8th std. that even 10th std. students couldn't solve. I got known for my mathematics in 9th & 10th. I solved exercises much before topics started. I got reported to the principal for being 'talented'. Krishna madam, my principal, called my mom to tell that I disturb the whole class after doing my mathematics exercises in advance and that I 'smile/ laugh' more than required, whether it be a lecture or some stupid girls asking stupid mathematics doubts. I and my mom ridiculed her back home. I cited a sarcastic poem on Krishna madam on farewell causing no farewell for next 4 years, got appreciated for the effort, got cursed for the consequences. I passed 10th boards with fairly good marks.

I got into SGN, selected non medical with comp science; felt good to find many old friends there too; liked the new environment, adjusted myself to it, made new friends, hanged on to the older ones that were of my genre; got puzzled by frankness of Sunaiyna madam, though loved it; found the gals of new school really 'gals'; got to know for the first time what IIT and JEE really meant; bunked classes, played TT in class in absence of teacher, got caught by mamta madam while picking up a ball from behind the chemistry lab; escaped consequences by playing emotions game with Anuj our monitor in front against Sunaiyna madam, with a dialouge 'I resign taking the responsibility'; played 'dave' in comp lab, fell in love with C++ graphics, spent half of my time in comp lab doing graphics, promoted Hindi conversation in school, greeted everyone in Hindi, got Sunaiyna madam frustrated of that; practised making periodic table before english paper, wrote poetry in the night before chemistry paper, but passed my second board with decent marks again.

I took a FIITJEE crash course for JEE which crashed all my confidence in PCM. I convinced my parents and dropped an year, got into Narayana IIT academy, kalu Sarai, expanded my body clock, or rather distorted it; studied hard, or atleast showed that to my parents. Got into late night traffic jams in palam, spent hours waiting for railway gate to open, spent hours to commute to and fro, used the class interval time to sleep and my nights for studies/poetry. Took JEE, came to know I've cleared it when I was in my hometown. Cleared DCE, AIEEE but chose IITs for sake of 'IIT'. After CSc and electronics in all IITs, the only option I filled was P&I in IIT Roorkee and felt brave about it. I entered IIT Roorkee to have best 4 years of my life; bunked classes, had nighouts for gaming, surfing, bakar, survived courses with hardly an hour of study, impulsive decision of long tours, busT visits ranging 1 in d night to 5 in the morning, ganga canal, 3am sudden haridwar visits, first experience of so called 'bad habits', and all that I've already covered in a post before. There I met my best fellas till date; met the best and the weirdest characters of my life.

I got placed into NMDC Ltd., no comments about that except that it is my current employer and I saw the dream as well as I am writing this blog lying in a room provided by NMDC only.

I still can't believe all of this flashed in my dream like a big single movie just in one night. It seems like I lived my life once again last night. There's a lot of data this dream has brought back up, like some super compressed folder has been unzipped suddenly. My mind can't handle it and I can't write everything here. I wish it was possible to delete or insert some chapters ...