Nostalgia

Here I was....Going thro' yet another back-breaking journey through the so-called "IT Expressway" on my way to work. The 2 - 2.5 hours commute is never short of thrills...especially of the hair-rising kind!! I really admire our bus driver for his dexterous way of tackling the maddening traffic; not to mention the darting people and the grazing cows in the middle of the road.

I strike up a conversation with an acquaintance from my previous morning ride to work. Beginning with the bad roads and traffic conditions, we move on to our backgrounds. And that's where we strike up a connection...He studied in Asan and he knows my buddy, as well as my buddy's friends and his brother. This took me back to the school and college days when we used to play cricket on the road....that's when nostalgia struck me...when we used to break the neighbor's pots and windows...the times when we used to have bet matches at Somasundaram ground (and I still remember, we never won any match to-date and in the process lost a small fortune!!)...the times we spent on the terrace overlooking the city and the traffic. Those were really heady days!!

To top it, my acquaintance knew a lot about my college....right from the presence of the TEAM factory across the road and the presence of a residential school to the presence of swimming pool within the college campus. Was very surprised to hear this from him....Later came to know that he had several colleagues from my college. All those pleasant college memories started flooding my thoughts...those that had been deeply hidden within the confines of my neurons!!!

All these pleasant and nostalgic memories made my morning sojourn a walk in the park!! And then reality strikes back rudely...when I see the office building in front of my eyes. But this was one really enjoyable ride to work.