Goodbye to the Student Life Ritika Chandy Five years ago we never thought about the dishes or what to do in the evenings. Never thought about the blank stare of the future, the fast fire of professional framework or that one day it would all drain away – (passion love life hope) – Never thought we’d see our batchmates scattered married, dying, struggling giving up and failing giving birth and thriving each foot on a different road from the same spring we once loved Each hand trained alike but now different each life strained through a different load We couldn’t have asked for any more or any less Either is illusion, and this is your reality Six a.m. beginnings and head to pillow at midnight – There will always be people to heal and hold and now we are strong enough to pull the heaving mas of helpless humanity up the weary hillside of these hundred human years And if there is anything left in the middle of this inexhaustible ache then it is a dream But it is a dream, that we will never forget.
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