Nostalgia

There is no replacement for hostel life . Period . A life with job may be lucrative because one is financially independent but it lacks the distinct charm . Of course this is not a rant about any disappointment with the current life , on the contrary I feel very refreshed with this life of doing a job , enjoying doing work i love to do.
But as memorable as my school days were I do not have any major nostalgic feeling related to it.
But the life at KGP it seems will be etched permanently in my mind . I was going through G talk status message of one of my friend and it was "It has begun".Hopefully it is in reference to X-games ( cs tournament) that is currently going on.And that sparked all this chain of thought within my mind. I still vividly remember the fun we had at the X-games staying up late watching matches and then playing too . In fact playing cs was one thing that makes KGP life so eventful , not only because the game was so enchanting but because i played it amongst some wonderful friends. I still have recollections I received for killing 3 members of our opponent or clutching rounds and that still brings a zing in my heart. We waited for this for the whole long year , practicing , making strategies and more importantly doing something which made us happy. However "It has begun" could also be marked as a classic KGP status message be it for exams , be it for some tourney , be it for SF, or for placements .
Exams . Now that is some topic :) . But as harsh as they seemed at those time , now i realize those few days were nothing sort of classic . Studying things we never did the whole year , working out problems , staying way late in the night(to study that is) those are sorts of things we are never going to . And i never though i would say this but I do miss the classes . There were some thing so organized about them and some of our teachers made topics so damn interesting.
And there were series and movies.Something I had no experience of before KGP.Be it the wonderful movies which I watched for the first time or those that i repeated later , I realized that movies had an immense power over us . They made us embark on a journey which we never though possible and made us travel through an array of emotion.Of course I don't miss them even now , I still see all of them but I owe it to KGP which cultivated this wonderful habit.
In the end I miss my friends.I still make wonderful friends , but the friends I made in KGP will be the friends I will cherish for ever.I would love to make some recollection about them because they are the major source of the nostalgic feelings i keep having about KGP. From my depmates to wingies to all the Uddu friends and all cs players , each of them influenced me with their own magic.Those late night dinners in cheddis , or going to aunties for ice cream or going to Waldies to eat the same specific meals week after week , or watching pulp fiction and enjoying every bits of it , or playing carom in our wing's corridor, or waking each other up for early morning class, or going to Kolkata for applying to passport , or watching aoe from someone's back , or studying (rather sleeping) in the library WOW they were some remarkable times.
After all that is said and done i realize as it write this that the old days are gone and they won't be back again except through memories which are sharp now but will slowly will become vague in spite of my efforts to keep those wonderful times afresh. But then nothing is eternal , what begins must come to an end , and as a true optimist i keep looking ahead into the horizon , but then sometimes you have to look back and say Those were the days , the days of dream.