Musing

Phew! What a time I've been having for the past few days!! Didn't expect things to go so proper. First of all, I stayed as jobless and free at home for a weekas I could have, for I knew I won't be able to be that way after that. Stayed at Bombay for the weekend, what an amazing weekend that was..!! Discovered my friends in a new light, not exactly a new light but an old long lost light. It's always good to feel that you have brilliant friends who can do so much for you. Realized how amazingly good friends I got in college in a span of just one year and at the same time I also felt the goodness of golden olden friends! Things seemed to work as hoped of, certain surprises successfully pulled off, certain planned and unplanned events providing exhaustive fun, a certain perfectly timed exit providing a rare memorable experience! (yes, only you'll get this one Prateek!!)... Anyway, that weekend being memorable for various reasons. Meeting up with friends in a sudden way, and also to certain people in an unexpected way... and whatever the conditions and changes and maturity and growing up things be.. I am a kid at heart, and the first flight travel is also something to feel happy and excited about!! Being in a protective environment throughout and having explored every bit of central India without visiting anywhere else, coming to places like Bombay and Chennai all alone is indeed something which i never expected, though always hoped and wanted. I feel like China! So the boy-meets-world as mentioned in my first ever blog post continues as the boy continues to meet the world and know the world (pun intended, 'world'!! :D). And talking about friends, due to whom all this is possible to a large extent, I feel really grateful. It feels really good to have a friend who can assure you of a place for stay despite having packed all his stuffs and moving to a different place in a couple of days, a friend whom you ask to meet up on the way but end up being pulled to the house and being greeted with unexpected hospitality, a friend who can come wrong way just to share an auto in a place like Bombay, a friend who can travel in a local train just so that you get an experience of the local train, a friend who can join in for lunch after travelling an hour despite having already had lunch and eating nothing even when treated! And a friend who can wait for 2 hours in the airport just to recieve you despite being ill and then accomodate you in his house!!

And just like the weekend, the internship is also fun! Though very less work unless deliberately asked for, the Arbitration Proceedings are very interesting. There was this case of Sattva Engg. v. VA Tech Wabag. A construction contract case and thanks to our gunthroat contracts professor who didn't use monsterjobs.com and mistakenly landed as a professor instead of a Reality Crime Show Anchor like Sansani, we still remembered the sections of Indian Contract Act, and hence were able to understand almost all of the proceeding. An engineer who was the arbitrator kept claiming that he knew very little about the law but was still very clear with his logic while conducting the arbitration. But anyway, I got to know certain things which I wouldn't have known otherwise, like, 'in our profession, the amount of work is directly proportional to the age', and how turtle faced senior advocates think arbitration and ADR is all rubbish and bullshit and how arbitration just serves to fill the pockets of the arbitrators and how such turtle faced honourable senior lawyers have the guts/indecency to make such thoughts of theirs clear to everyone in an arbitration proceeding in front of an arbitrator!! Anyways, it was fun and I look forward to attending more arbitrations!

The second semester got over, an entire year got over, and it seems as if I have travelled far in this one year. 'One year none the wiser' ran the status line of one of my classmates on her birthday. One year in college, I can definitely say it has been full of experiences, and not 'none-the-wiser' for me! Notwithstanding all that has happened in the past few days, my debut journeys, visiting places for the first time, realizing the worth of friends, witnessing arbitration proceedings, I somehow feel totally being myself now, quite detached from the material world, feeling happy within, feeling as strong as ever, as optimist as ever, the feelings of certain things being delusionary and hollow and void seem to have been realized and filled and though a lot of insignificant things going around in my mind (like the ones which fill this post), I seem to get the focus and preferences and aims of life quite distinctly; feel a lot self controlled and above all the concepts of things which are called 'human'!

Probably the joblessness of mind creates so much of narcissism, but anyway, more joblessness makes such narcissism published in a weblog! Results coming out in a day and unlike the last semester and like my school days, I feel least concerned about them. I can say that there was much more work this semester than whatever was there in the last semester, so even if the result isn't good, there won't be any feeling of gulit unlike the last time! With these random narcissist and useless but pure and clear thoughts, I now go to sleep, will wake up again to make sure that there is enough exhaustion to enjoy the next slumber!!!