Revisiting that Old Mirror…

There could be that one friend from the past that we miss now, a friend whom we believe could’ve related, consoled, and celebrated the ‘real self’ in us, hadn’t we got estranged with time.

Mohammed Shahid K | 2007 – ME, Former Student Editor, GECK

Years at GECK were more than learning Engineering for many of us. We learned to excel in examinations in a much shorter time than we ever did in the past. We learned to accept failures and strive to succeed in relentless attempts. We learned to skimp on our quota from home. We learned to share. We learned to love, we also learned to set free our love. We learned to make things happen. We learned much more than Engineering, we stared at the realities of life and in doing so, we started living. We learned to learn. We learned life.

We were not alone on this path. Life back then and now might be very different but for the friends who stood by us, who understood us, who were us. Every nook and corner of the campus, be it SFI corner, mech point, poultry, canteen or the long corridors still lingers the sentiments of those relationships. Together we made impossible things possible.

As we stepped off-campus, we got busy with our lives and drifted apart in the white water flow of reality. We look back and the roads to our past are spiderwebbed. There could be that one friend from the past that we miss now, a friend whom we believe could’ve related, consoled, and celebrated the ‘real self’ in us, hadn’t we got estranged with time.

Even when we are connected in this digitally-knit world, there is a disconnection of minds that we have come to accept. A willful ignorance. The good old times and the beautiful minds that filled those times become dust-ridden mirrors in an unused corner of our minds. As we start to feel alienated in our own spaces today and set off to seek our roots, let’s pause, reflect and dust off the layers in introspection. Let’s revisit that old dust-ridden mirror. Let’s connect and grow younger or older together.

We have never lost anything that cannot be saved.

On the Cover Image..

The birds represent each one of us. The cover depicts how we can see through our friends and understand what’s running in them, be it chaos, pain or tranquillity. There is a portion of us that we share and enrich with our friends. Let’s join the flock to chirp together on better mornings.