Adieu Manipal :)

It took me some time to grasp the fact that my Manipal life is over. However I understood pretty soon that it is time to move on. There’s this Manipal song which has one line in the lyrics which goes like this: “Oh if I had a choice, maybe I’d always wanna be there…” Of course I miss Manipal and everything about it; but perhaps due to my inquisitive nature, I’m more eager and excited about what’s waiting out there in the world for me. And if I were really given a choice to start all over again in Manipal, it wouldn’t be less exciting at all.  But if I were to re-live the last three years I spent in that splendid town, there is one thought pattern of mine I would have changed completely.
I now look back at the thought of me thinking of myself as inferior or lower than anyone else occasionally. It was all so futile. Why did I ever do that? I should not have put up with people who were reckless with my feelings and emotions. In those occasional but recurrent days of me thinking why life is the way it is and why I am sad, all I had to do was go ahead and do those few things that gave me pleasure. Well, I honestly don’t mean that I should have denied any of my feelings; which have been happy and joyous most often. But if there’s one thing I have learnt during my stay at Manipal and also one thing I regret is: looking at all that is missing than what I do possess. There is a period of mourning but if we extend it to more than what it should be, we’re the ones who are at loss.
I thank my gracious creator for having given me such beautiful memories to look back to and for the 3 amazing years. 