“Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! It’s a brand new dayyyyy…. Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Everything’s
todayyyy….!” .
Oh God! Not again. Why does this morning alarm has to go off
every day at 7:00AM? Can’t it make some mistake? Damn this mobile phone! I would
have had a 0.99% chance of sleeping till late if the batteries of my alarm
clock would have burned out. But this mobile phone took that away from me! Screw you
Nokia! Screw you!
This is what I was thinking while laying down on my hostel
bed when I suddenly realized that too much thinking could deprive me of a hot shower
as my fellow inmates would finish the hot water in the tank by then. With all my
strength, courage and will power I pulled myself out of my bed, it was 7:45AM
by then and I just rushed to the bathroom area. It took me approximately 17
minutes to go to loo, brush my teeth and take a bath. Sometimes I would wake up
at 8:50AM and be there in my classroom attending the 9:00AM class. Yeah! This is
the superpower that you get after paying the huge amount of hostel fees! Off
course I mean, your dad pays the fees and you get the superpower! Fair enough!
I was a new fish in the college so I reached the college early
that day. It was a practical class of 1 hour and 30 minutes. I guess I was a
bit too early that day as there were barely one or two students on the floor
and the computer labs were not yet open. I was standing alone beside the huge
window on the first floor and thinking some random stuff when I saw a white
blur appearing from college cafeteria. It was a girl walking from the college
cafeteria towards the academic building. It was actually a group of people but
all I could notice was a beautiful girl with a cup of coffee in one hand and a
couple of notebooks in another. She was wearing a white top, a blue denim jeans
and a pair of white belly. I could see her kissing the coffee cup again and
again as she was having that hot coffee sip by sip in the freezing cold weather.
The cold winter breeze was waving her smooth hair in the air. She tried to
adjust her waiving hair behind her right ear but the notebooks did not allow
her to do so. I thank Goddess Saraswati for that. I don’t have a habit of staring
at people but this girl just didn’t allow me to take my eyes off her. I was not
able to look somewhere else even after trying. She had me spell bounded.
“Oh boy!”, I said.
I never realized when
these words came out of my mouth. I simply cannot understand or explain that
moment when she accidentally looked on the window where I was standing. She
looked at me, she noticed me looking at her, and then she again looked at me
for a while. The gape of a few micro seconds lasted for too long. Then she just
broke the eye contact and moved ahead to enter the academic building. She was
out of my sight but I still was not able to get over the hang over that she
gave me in the past few minutes. I was standing inside the building but was
feeling as if I had walked the distance from the cafeteria to the academic
building with her. I don’t know why but I wanted to walk with her, more, more
and a little more. There was something unexplainable that I felt, something
that even I was not able to understand, something that was supposed to last for
a life time, something that didn’t end with those few passing minutes,
something that was just a beginning.
-by Ambuj
