The left is Silver Linings

The golden moments of their lives are getting closer and closer and they are excited, and that was the day they are seeing each other after their departure from their college days. They have just got memories to cherish in their lives, they were no more truths and they are out of their routines, life started them hunting down, and once the mighty predators are now preys of their own dreams which are mightier than them in the jungle of concrete and software.

The happy days of their lives are to be lived again on this day and it is convocation.

Here it was in festive mood. I had my convocation recently, I being a veteran of this college very happy to see my juniors and my batch ms software to jump with joy and feel the warmth of friendship again and get loose in their very own ways.

The day is clouded and happy to have such weather in a tropical region.

The first silver lining is students who are tough enough to fight their officials to attend this great event of their lives. The cloud is it was a working day and the people recruited were busy getting trained and many flew off breaking the barriers in the pursuit of better education like in olden days who went to nalanda kind of universities, who are definitely gonna change this world with their knowledge gain. .so the number of people turned out to be less, and the people more seen were parents.

It was eleven and I have been waiting in canteen from morning and my canteen walla who is a ambitious and foresighted fellow, arranged food for such a big crowd and his aspirations are let down by the crowd which is small.

When we had it was a weekend and all came down from all parts of india even by flights and were cloud nine, which was just an year ago.

I have been waiting…….waiting………………..waiting……………………………………….and the long pauses were filled with coffee.

Then the second silver lining is to see that a new setup rose in middle of our college to meet the crowd needs. As our auditorium can’t support that much crowd.

It was beautiful like a set in karan johars film for song…….where all big celebrities dance.

It’s a big tent with milky white curtains touched up with violet satin cloth hangings with edges in better creamy color. Then the there was a big creamy stage with red carpeting all over. Fully covered with flowers and daffodils. And even made brighter appearance because of a beautiful arrangement of stoning and plants. A delight to watch.

When I first saw it two days ago I thought it won’t be sufficient to withstand this years passed outs and I was sure about that I even picturized about people standing out of stands and trying to peek in. Now, there were only 40% of seats filled up with people who are relevant with it. Remaining is filled up with delegates and professors and parents dressed brightly.

Its like marriage where the caterers and designers and audience are good and full but the only thing missing is bride and bridegroom. We had Audi-A6[black], Toyota [dirty white], Mercedes Benz[shiny silver], Ford Endeavour [black], Sonata Embera [Black] lined up to collect the delegates.

The next lining is the convocation getting STARTED, the cloud here is, not having a speck of cloud in sky. Its clear and blazing is the suns side. Its like a federer or tiger woods playing and other side is always loosing here loosing side is students who came in formals and the winning side was sun. it started in and around one o clock.

The strength in silver linings were getting weaker and weaker. As speeches started and people were getting hopeless and irritating. Whole auditorium is having 20”inch lcds to see the convocation on stage closely and even aired on net. The speeches were dry and absurd people talking about google ibm and not at all having morale content and motivating and not at all good speech. One line was good stating that” one has to update the knowledge of technology regularly to survive” and in the end” believe in your thoughts follow your brains”. The speech had content that is scary like extinction of fossil fuels, global warming and stuff. Dude all know that they are already enough equipped to everything, they are engineers, problems are not new for them. The speaker might have feared all these things, so he is trying to send the fear in.

The fact is fear is a word that is never found in their life’s dictionary. So it went like fact filing everything. Parents are clue less. delegates and professors think that they are titans and not willing to listen as it has become their routine every year. And the sufferers were students again……

People are walking out as if there is a song running in a flop movie out of auditorium.

Still the hope was their degrees which were embodied in a leather file and the degree shining. The sweat of everybody’s life and the golden period in their lives spent deserves that honor.
And it is shadowed by the college’s lack of care and their hurry to conduct the convocation early. The certificate is like a Xerox laminated or to be frank a print taken on dot matrix printer on a trace paper.

Now, people are so pinned down that they are happy to be back in coll. That’s it; their happiness is unshaken by anything in world because they have had enough on their great day. Some were so pinned down that they just ran out of that place and felt that they unnecessarily came there as they met nobody and felt that college took its last chance of revenge on them by spoiling their great day of life.

Then there was only silver lining and that was in sky. All they had is twilight in sky and long path of life with strange things, strange people, and unseen situations. Who are ready to leave the past and run on the new one just crushing the things in their ways. They are no more dull, their hearts racing their minds planning now they are the most mean machines on earth and they started it, and nobody is gonna stop them, because they are invincible and deadly weapons to kill everything that obstructs their way to reach the pinnacle and not only theirs but also nations. They re not mean to forget the grounds which made them like that and they are sure gonna forgive their college and will come back to rectify them.

“ they are the bunch running of to catch bus, they are running to reach destinies, they are running to create new paths, they may not be steve jobs, ajim premjis, or not even kalam. They are just themselves a bunch which co-existed in college. Running out to create that innocence and happiness in the world outside the college too, for that now they are running and they are gone and now, its drizzling the nature blessed them and it rained like cats and dogs, now, the whole nature is in full blooming you can see that even in evenin darkness that’s the positive aura that they carried”
“SILVER LININGS WERE GIVEN FOR THEM AND NOW THEY ARE THUNDERS AND LIGHTNINGS”

NOTE: all are fictious.