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-"I can be a pilot, you know. Nice uniforms, fancy lifestyle, extravagant pay and not to forget the hot cabin crew...?",I was naive as a rebel teenager.

-"Have you read a newspaper recently? Many pilots are being sacked or at least their salaries are being cut down and not to mention most of the perks have been snatched away.", shrugged Varun.

-"So that makes it one less on the list. I am surprised by limited career options that come to my mind. If only I had paid attention in my classes..."

-my friend, Varun raised an eyebrow at me.

-"What I mean to say is that I don't regret it. How could I feel sad for the two most sweet years of my life? ...all the friends I had, those fun-filled wild times we shared together, playing 'Counter Strike' all night long, having 4 banana-splits all by myself in one night, enjoying poha and jalebis 5 in the morning...", as I hurriedly completed my sentence on observing his 'still raised eye-brow'; all the memories of good experiences came back flooding into my mind and my head was lost in its own glorious trance.

-"Oi! Where are you lost?"shouted my friend shaking me, digging his nails in my arm.

-"Nothing" I was just not in a mood to verbalize my thoughts for him. "OK, Listen I could be a lawyer..."

I was distracted by the constant buzzing sound that came from his pocket.
-"I gotta go, buddy. Its the third call from my mom."said Varun with a 'freaked out' look on his face."Well all I can tell you is to think straight."
I escorted him out with his closing remark.

As the time flew by, these 'insightful' conversations kept on and hours turned into days and the time window to apply for a descent college was narrowing down.

So finally one sleepless night I was just lying on my bed with my B.C. Rich when I decided to give a final thought to whatever I wanted to do with my future; and that is how I finally decided to become an engineer.

I applied for some good engineering colleges(obviously I had screwed up my IIT-JEE exam) and
finally opted for CITM(now known as MRIU- Manav Rachna International University) and things have been bearable since then. Now that I am on the path to become an engineer I am sort of happy...not content though. I want more...more than what meets the eye and more than what it seems to be...

Happiness is a very, VERY "diverse" and subjective concept.

What makes me happy?
Sometimes it those small little things which people are too busy or too 'self-proclaimed-cool' to notice or take care of; like an instant of an emotion, warm sun in December mornings, cool breeze in month of May, drizzling monsoons, a little child's smile or a needy person's gratitude, late night lazy strumming on guitar, or just a late night conversation with a stranger on a chat messenger.

Am I happy?
Yes I'm happy with the way things turned out....my friends my family, my problems and the solutions.

So here I am sill trying to figure things out...

Signing off
-Er. Garv Vadehra



P.S.- Last night I was just browsing the internet and I get an IM from a cheery stranger...lets call her Eva for now- cuz whats in a name, baby...a half an hour into chatting with her made me complete this piece which was in bits earlier...so this one's for you.

P.P.S.- This piece of work was written in very short pieces over a long period of time so If most of it is vague then bear with me.More sharp posts are on their way...