I wish I could
Go and eat in the familiar old mess again,bad food eaten with great friends, and never mind the taste!
Skip breakfast and have 2 vadas and a tea at 10.10 in the Snacky...
I could go to the Pearl Coffee shop at night , eat biscuits and feed the styrofoam cups to the cows again.
Order a glass of papaya juice for Rs. 6.00 at the Juicy, and laze around one hot afternoon after class,while quibbling with Pawan or Pattu or Vicky over who will pay..
I could be awakened by the sounds of Gyani's speaker blaring out Marilyn Manson's "This is the new shit"..
I could feel the wind in my face as I pedal uphill from the Bank to Octa...
I could get wet in the rain on Topaz terrace again,without a thought for tomorrow...
It took me several hours to walk through the corridor to my room again,talking to people on the way...
Go to Tabs or Meridian and eat like there is no tomorrow...
Never go single on a bicycle again....
Sit in class and sleep with my head lolling,oblivious to the teacher watching...
Play an extravagant backhand slice on the TT board again, the night before a semester exam...
Smell the stink of clothes soaked too long in the detergent...
Turn my room inside out after someone mistook a lizard for a scorpion...
See "all kinds" of movies with 10 people in a room,and bend double laughing at the comments...
Sit on the slab outside my room reflecting and dreaming about the wonderful life ahead...
Feel the Coke burn my eyes, the egg yolk running down my hair and the stinging kicks on wet denim, awarded for an 'achievement'...
Spend hours on the game of one upmanship with Pawan-creating absolute groaner puns...
Talk endlessly with Pawan and Pattu about the woman of my dreams who will bowl me over...
These are those small things that I wish for, the simple pleasures of life which I never thought twice about. A chance conversation with Vicky brought it all out. Its nearing a year since hostel life ended, so my mind inevitably keeps going back and thinking-What was I doing this day last year. I shall write one more post in May on the year that was and on so much that has happened since.
