Not sure if I should share. But tum log apne hi ho yaar!

[Balashish Dubey]

These past five years have been so big that I have to keep reminding myself of how far I’ve come in such a short amount of time. I’ve(almost) graduated in Chemical Engineering with honours, turned 21 (only to later have legal drinking age increased to 25) and in a couple of days, I’ll begin the rest of my life, foraging at the age of 23. I would start a job and move to a realm of corporate backstabbing and stressing, knowing only one or two people there. I have learned how to share a private place such as a bedroom with another person, a person I had never met prior, I have learned that the true magic of numbers is not in their absolute isolated magnitudes but how they influence the existence and lives of the ones around them. This past year, I’ve learned how to live alone and how to be at such a low point in your life that you feel up to your chest in water, up to your knees in mud. But I’ve also met incredible people, taken classes that have forever altered the way I view things and the way I live. I’ve slowly started growing into something and someone I’m not ashamed of being. Growth is such an incredible thing and for the longest time I’ve thought that everyone around me has been living more, becoming more than I have. But growth is something that’s hard to see in yourself all the time. Once you reach a certain line on the door frame, it becomes a lot harder to measure. Sometimes we see in it our skin, in our faces but it’s all too familiar to us. We don’t notice the subtle laugh lines forming, the new wrinkles dotting your forehead. Everything is so gradual, like grains of sand being added to the same sand castle. Sometimes you have to look back and stretch it out like a road map, plotting all the road stops along the way. You have to realize that growth for each person is relative. One person’s ten miles is another’s thousand.

Thanks for all the RGgiri (I am looking at you-H-6 junta!) and making this a bearable half-decade. 

This time sober,

-Bala.

[Sham Thanekar]

Yes yes, we love you too Bala. Ab senti band kar aur so jaa.

Sham Thanekar
Final Year Undergraduate (dual degree)
Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay

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[Balashish Dubey]

But.. BUT....

What about all the LOVE, sham?

the L-O-V-E?