Thought about this a great deal before I actually penned it down. Thought so much that i realised that Pune would not be not complete in one blog post...it required t
two or maybe more. :)
Its about a journey that started when I was a kid. In 2001 when I was just a tiny gawky 13 year old...yes I know at 13 some of us are really old and mature but I was a definite exception.. not worldly wise...far from street smart...short tempered and miles away from being diplomatic (which i am even now!)...
I remember entering the hallowed gates of St Mary's, I felt a pinch of anxiety and awkwardness mixed with a whole lot of supremacy having arrived from Mumbai..the Land of Awesomeness :)
I remember how I was dressed in my plain civil clothes while the girls around me were in perfect blue pinafores. They would have been nice if
a) all of them would not have had their own group of friends.
b) I had been a little more accommodating.
c) If I had allowed myself to be bullied by the rest :)
Talking about the last, I was nearly bullied by one such person..juvenile as we were, we found childish thrills in playing tree to tree :) and I was made to give the Den by unfair means! I was aghast at how I was being treated... in fact i remember having even tried to save the other new students (read easy targets )from being bullied...but they wouldn't listen to me...so i walked off..carefree and sure that i had done what was only right!
later on these new girls turned out to be my best friends in school...those with whom i spent the next two years...and actually the last two years of school life...they were great friends and now as we are all in different parts of the country, i feel sad to have lost the connection...but then FB lives on...bringing hope.
Its my duty to mention in Part 1, that I had great detest for this city when i had moved in...a slow life...having to make new friends...great comparisons with everything which was mumbaiyaa and the continuous struggle of trying to be better than the former!
This contempt however transformed as i realized that for me moving was a natural way of living...like i had from Calcutta to Bombay..i was bound to develop a way of making new friends. .as for the way Pune was...it was just a struggle of the people to ape the better...or to put it in better words...to live up to what Charles Darwin had said...It is the survival of the fittest...
Thus ended 2 years of a relatively boring period of my life in Pune...the city that gave me a lot...love luck and happiness in the years that followed..for then it just promoted me from a school going kid to a college going adolescent...to learn much more and to enjoy much much more...cheers to that thought ...
more to come...
:)
P.S.: A pic of my 1st home in Pune :)
