Back to Square

Well, nothing much has changed... Only 4 'glorious' years have passed down the river of my life... But as I type these words in the secrecy of the night, I realise that I have managed to remain quite the same, despite the ‘safari-ride’ I had in the years between. Otherwise, where will I be able to find the 'hunger' or whatever you call it to put this piece together, ignoring the comfort of this night.

Coming back to the point, now I find myself at the same spot from where it had all begun. Yes, obviously with a few differences here and there...

Let’s take a look at them. Well, I will take a look. Would you be my guest? To put forward, the most important one of these (changes) is going to be the little bit of platform that I have managed to put my feet on. Otherwise, there's not much of a difference between that night in the hostel, when I had been composing the piece titled – ‘Tottering, that’s the word…’ and tonight. Yes, of course, that night, it was a bit early, not as late as 4:30 am. So what can you derive from that? Yes, I have grown insomniac. But mind you, insomniac, only when the heart desires it... But as I always maintain, my heart does play a very important role in my life, and it really gets the better of my mind to keep this soul awake in most of the cases.

Yeah, so what was I talking about? Yeah, the little bit of differences between the Sayan Dey of those times and the Sayan Dey, whom I have managed to 'grow' into. A big LOL for using the word 'grow' (self-acclaimed). Let's not divert further. Hahaha... The second difference that I can readily spot is the gadget on my hand. Long gone are the days of my old Nokia 3120 Classic, which used to be the medium for those blog posts, I used to make from the dungeons of my hostel. A sleek Nokia Lumia 520 is giving me company tonight and is aiding me immensely with its inbuilt MS Office Application, as I compose this post...

The third difference has to be the location, obviously... Yeah, those posts were used to be composed in Chennai, where life was uncertain, when appearing for a Maths Cycle Test, used to give me so much of the shivers, that I had to pour my heart out into those posts. But now, here I am in Kolkata, and yes life is comparatively a bit certain here. But not ensured obviously.

And what else, in the Difference column? Well, let's see! Yeah, I don't have a Cycle Test tomorrow, or the day or the week after... I have meetings to attend, calls to take, assignments to complete and deadlines to meet. To put it in one sentence, I am not a student anymore... I am a techie now, an IT labour, working in what people call the 'glamorous' Corporate World...

There goes the ‘Difference’ Section... Other than these four, believe me, nothing much has changed...

Now, coming to the ‘Similarities’, if I start to have a look, I will find they are so aplenty, that I cannot make them fit into a single section, like I have done for the ‘Differences’. I will try, here, to have a look at some of the similarities, some of the personal ones, may be.

So, here they are. Those nights, when I used to compose my posts, the only source of light that would be present in my hostel room would be that from the night-lamp... Still, today as I am typing this post, I take a look away from my cell phone and in the void of the pitch black of this night, the night-lamp just seems to be telling, whatever it is, I am going to be right there with you, giving you all the light that you may need... So, basically what I meant by the above comparison is that the posts were composed at night during those days and is being continued the same way at the same time of the day or rather night, should I say... I don't know but night just helps me... To bring out everything that I seem to have...

Similarity, right? Yeah, one more! I had the time to compose all of those and luckily of late, I have managed to take some time out to pay devotion to this hobby of mine, because that is what I think it deserves. So yeah, no thinking, no wondering... Just got to write, because I know that's the way it should be.

Yeah, the support, inspiring me! How can I forget that? In the years that have passed in between, with me being away from my writing and all, this was one thing that I did seek so much but not to much avail... Doubts were made to creep in my mind as to the way it really should be... But yeah, that was at an alien place, in a different timeline with different people around... But here now, back to my city, I have realised that I haven't lost that much, believe me. In fact, I have gained so much. The support which I had, initially, has only increased manifold, adding to this new zeal of reopening this blog of mine. By support, I mean the support of you people, my friends, who have always stood by me and given me everything I have ever needed. So yeah, this support truly helps and really inspires me to do so much more. So yeah, the support behind me, has not changed, but has only got better and stronger!

And here comes the last similarity! Any guesses on this one? Yeah? Well, not quite there, right? OK, it has to be me, myself and everything associated with me, Sayan Dey. Believe me guys, I have not changed. The same old guy, only in a more colourful and greater environment.

So, that’s it here! It’s me, back to the square. A new beginning beckons, a greater prospect glistening in the horizon.

Thank you, guys, for being so kind, as to go through the entirety of this post, because even I know it was boring. Wasn't it? Do keep coming back, here. I will really try to make up with my next post, as I have found something interesting to write about. Believe me! Cheers!