Raghav, the protagonist from the other
blog post “She Moved In, But I had moved Out” is now working at a
Multi-National Firm somewhere in the foreign land and is quite comfortable with
his new relocation. Most of his time gets totally consumed with the office work,
as he barely finds some personal time to take off from the hectic & dynamic schedule.
Some turbulent days did pass by him
and some gentle ones too, which was well taken care off by him, as he was
matured enough to believe the truth that no single day is the same and no
single situation is gone stay the same.
And it was one such gentle day at the office when suddenly a long lost memory of his flashed right in front of his eyes, barely lasting a second or two, just like how a lighting would hit the earth and vanish off swiftly.
An unsettled confusion turned up within him instantly. How can a long lost event suddenly flash up before him was his question to himself when he had not thought of it anytime now? Thinking of what caused the sudden trigger of the memory flash,
Raghav found out that it was from the Radio that was playing out of his mobile
phone.
He had this habit of listening to songs
while working, as it helped him stay focused, be always connected with Chennai and refine the unnecessary noise surrounding him. And it
was this time that over the radio the Radio Jockey had mentioned the name of a
small town, which ignited the memory out of his brain.
It was just a town located twenty three kilometres east of Erode, a city in Tamil Nadu, wherein once Raghav had established a close connection with it. Mixed emotions started flowing within him as soon as the name of the town echoed inside his brain. He was no longer able to concentrate on the work that he was doing and the thought of revisiting the place urged within him.
Thanks to the technological development the world has seen now,
one's actual presence is not exactly required at any place. You can be virtually connected anywhere from the Arctic to the Antarctica. Well when tools like Google Maps & YouTube depicts
most of the places on the earth so accurately and gives a complete virtual tour of even some of the most inaccessible place on the planet, all that you need to do is to
sit and relax while the World Wide Web does it magic.
Coming back to the present situation, it was nearly fifteen years now and not even once did he actually think of revisiting that particular place, in person or virtually. So, what was the connection with the town that Raghav had?
Well in the early 2000's a set of educational
institutions blossomed across the state of Tamil Nadu boasting itself of specializing in
giving exemplary training for the higher secondary students to excel in their
board exams. Their marketing strategy has a serious impact in the houses of many middle class family, not just within the state but with the neighboring states as well. There were many kids who became victim to it and Raghav was one of
them.
(To know more about the life of students in such institution, please visit the actual blog post - https://krish-thefriendly.blogspot.com/2014/03/she-moved-in-but-i-had-moved-out-part-1.html )
However, today when Raghav was viewing
his school after fifteen years, none of those painful moments even showed up
because all the good memories had actually overshadowed the bad ones. So, when he was
looking at each of those buildings from his school, only those fond memories of
it were being played at the back of his eyes and he could actually feel himself
reliving those moments again.
The hostel wherein he and his roommates used
to spend long nights sharing spooky tales, the assembly area where he and
Mithun used to take the last row during the yoga session just to evade the
direct view of the warden, the playground wherein they used to show off their sporting
skills, as it was right close to the girls hostel, the higher secondary
academic block where he and his cousin brother used to secretly meet every day
and their secret spot on sharing paper chits containing coded information, the
main academic block wherein there were individual stairs for boys and girls,
the study hall where every morning he used to pretend studying when actually
sleeping with the book wide open and Mithun staying guard to alert him in case
of the warden coming by at close range and meeting his first crush, the girl who was
totally mad on him despite knowing the school rules, all brought in a big smile on his face.
Staying still for a moment at his work desk, he was still not out of the time travel that he just had, wishing how good it would be to actually revive them. Feeling cheerful about travelling down his memory lane, he was amazed knowing how the brain works and the need to encode more and more good memories into it, so as to have a happy retired life.
A life when you sit relaxed with your partner in the balcony of your high-rise apartment overlooking the beautiful mountains of the western ghats and sharing the wonderful moments with her.
