Bye bye 2011

Not only to 2011 but as this year is coming to an end I have to say a lot of Good Byes...
Tomorrow will be the last day in my School... Army Public School, Barrackpore. The place which I never thought would make me this sad. The worst part of the school was getting up 5.30 in the morning. Shit i hate that a lot... bathing in freezing winter months. In the last 1.5 years i have made friends and foe here. and there have been indifferent colleagues too, but what i most enjoyed and loved were the children. teaching them laughing with them, playing with them, scolding them. I always thought i dislike teaching but it turned to be different. i actually like it and i wud have never known this if I had not landed up here due to the scoldings of the principal over the phone. All these gifts and cards and best wishes makes me happy more than sad. They tell me i touched so many lives and i wud have never realized if i was not here. While I say Good bye to my first proper workplace, I take away happy loving memories... of my friends and my students...

Bye bye from the life of independence and being grown up and earning and welcome to slogging as i get back to studies, but this is what i wanted... Yet earning and spending as i want was fun. Contributing to the family gave a sense of responsibility, taking parents for movies and dinner was rewarding, Its a bye bye to all those moments.

Its bye bye to being sad and finding the embrace of your parents, waking up to dad's loving touches in my hair, mom's curses to finish the food on the plate and long philosophical conversations with bro. Oh those Saturday morning where literally mom and i had fights over the saree being properly draped before i went to school and missing breakfast because all these fights invariable made me late.

Bye bye to South City, my fav haunt to meet my best friend. all those rushes to be home on time from and catch the metro and the bigger rush of reaching there on time to meet him.

Bye bye to the banks of Ganga which always made me nostalgic and all the more romantic, to Kolkata...