Another Farewell

I've lost count of the number of times I've used the word, 'Goodbye' or its synonyms. I say it everyday, when I've to leave college for the day or if I've visited someone or even if I've been chatting with somebody online. I've used it so many times that somewhere along the way I lost its meaning, the true implications of the word. And until now, I didn't realize the folly of it.

Today was the Farewell party of BA English, Batch of 2008-2011. I guess until morning, most of us simply took it as another opportunity to dress to kill. And even after reaching college, we were busy with seeing what everyone else was wearing, what the teachers wanted to say to us, if lunch would be good and after a while, when we would get home so that we would pursue that inexhaustible art- sleep. And it wasn't until I dragged myself to upload the photographs on facebook that I realized that today might've well been the last time I'd ever see all these faces. These faces coloured three years of my life, and I'm ashamed to admit I still can't attach names to quite a few of them. There are classmates I've never spoken to more than twice or thrice in these three years. There're those with whom my relationship has been volcanic. There are those whom I first hated but ended up liking and vice versa. But all of them have added something to me, something I might not be able to point out but which is definitely there.

So today, I bid farewell to these faces, my teachers, my friends. Not a simple goodbye like usual. I want to apologize to any I might have hurt, thank everyone who has been there for me, whether I knew it or not. Specially since you were the people who once let me answer my viva question on my life so far as- "I've lived a life with no regrets."

Thank you for making that possible.