I Wonder if I Should Be Saying Hello or Bye to You All Toda1

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*I wonder if I should be saying hello or bye to you all today. It is alsounclear to me whether I should be sad about it or happy. If the answeris sad, then I guess I am quite normal as yet. But if it is happy, then Ihave my few concerns, as to why would someone be happy when the

journey lakhs of people yearn, long for fell in their fates and its nallygoing to get over. If I say I m happy today, I ought to be lying.

*but because we never say bye to begin with, here s a hello toeveryone, !**", I am, wait, today is indeed a special day, and itdemands for more than a formal introduction, an introduction whichde nes me more aptly, as a person, as to what I was and what I havebecome, more than my mere name could ever tell you about me. #o letme just #$%& you who I am rather than just telling you.

Img' I am the one you can nd *here* more often than *here*, and thatwas for the girls, in case if someone needs to nd me. (or the boys, I)% + %- +% %// 0 (%1 2%3, meet me in later in the afternoon.

Img' I am the one who still has his blue books, untouched yet worn,even when the third internals are just around the corner.

Img' I am the favourite student of this teacher. #ir, am I not4

Img' 5nd nally, what describes me best at present is *img* being a

friend of all of you, being someone who shared the benches with youfor 6 years, someone who made and was made fun of, someone youwill show to your kids and say with a tinge of pride and a grin on yourface 7you see that guy, he was a douchebag at college, but madeeveryone laugh, he is a (1I ) of mine, he is 5ditya )ubey.8

*my speeches in the past have included a lot of sarcasm and subtle jokes, and I wondered if I should do the same thing in this speech aswell, and make people laugh for a while and gather applause, but then

it struck me that it is the most probably the nal time youre going tohear me speak like this, so I felt the burden of saying something thatactually mattered and something that you remember, if only for a day.$ear me speak, give me your patience, and I promise you I will giveyou food for thought.


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*to be honest, I will admit to it that even after being for 9 years in thesame class, I still don t know the names of a lot of people, I mightnever have spoken to you, especially girls, and that was perhapsbecause I am a very shy guy you see and and that makes me doubt my

social skills and that is very embarrassing, believe me. But I know for afact, that even though I don t know their names and they don t knowmine, if anytime in future, we cross paths, memories will :ash and ourlips will curl into a smile, because you people have been a part of mylife in its most beautiful years.

*fall in love, get your heart broken, that is important in shaping you asa person. )o not skip your classes, do not screw up your internals, thatis important in shaping you as an engineer. &ell, im going to make aterrible engineer then.

* be confused, confusion opens your mind to a whole new level ofpossibilities. try your hand at multiple things and see what makes youhappy, and if that profession doesn t make you a lot of money, nd a

wife or husband who earns more. It gives you an opportunity to pursuethe most hapha;ard and unrelated of professions and still be happy,more content than people who have their goals set.

*I miss being a kid, of seeing the most comple< of things in thesimplest form, of not making time to watch doraemon anymore. )o notever come to a point in life where you miss being a kid, do notoverthink, like a kid doesn t, ght with someone and get back togetherthe ne


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college than that. I very honestly also remember thinking that he wasbeing unsupportive and that the college wanted to save some money.But today, when I stand here, looking at your faces and joy and prideon the teachers faces, his words :oat in front of my eyes and I

suddenly reali;e that he was actually totally right. &hat I have reali;edis that the college and the rapport it has only takes us so far in makingmemories, its actually the people that make memories special, and Ihave been more than lucky to be among such ama;ing memorymakers. &e had our very own dj in our class, who I am sure will playama;ing songs after this, we have our own gaming champion on whomI can bet a thousand bucks, and I will ask him for the money later if heloses anyway, our very own computer e


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*I had pledged I would tell everything tonight that I have been keepingaway for all this while. +here would be no better time to say sorry andthank you to everyone who deserves it. Ill get done with the guilty part

rst, I must say sorry to all the teachers I have been rude to, whom I

have disobeyed, and who felt like kicking me out of the class forcoming so late, yours is a hard job, and people like me only make itharder I know. I am sorry, you have a big heart and im sure you willforgive me for all my unintended and sometimes intended mischiefs.Im sorry to every friend of mine I snapped at and wasn t cordial to, Ionly wish I had more time to spend with you all.

*now, before I get pushed down the stage for taking away too muchtime, I need to deliver a very special thank you. ow, I need you all toclap as loud as you can after I say the nerof.#.1.>urohit.sir, I, on behalf of all the students, and I am certain everyone willsecond that, want to thank you for every single thing, every time yousaved us from angry teachers, every time you forced our friends fromother branches say 7yaar tumhare $%) toh bhagwaan hai8, and wewould be lled with pride, and gratitude that it was diodes andantennas that inspired you and not machines and engines and sandand you chose to be an n engineer and end up being the shelter andshade we all needed. 2oure not someone this department wants, youre

someone this department needs.*I want to ask you all to do something the moment I utter the last wordof my seemingly endless speech. I want you all to clap your heart out,not for this college, not for all the subjects you have learnt here, not forthe boring to death speech I have given, but for youselves, the personto the right and left of you, for enduring this journey, which could vehaven ruthless at times, for getting your heart broken and moving on,for recovering from the accidents and turning up with a smile the ne


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do, honestly, I know I have done a lot of mistakes in the past 6 years,but even if given a chance, I wouldn t do one single thing di=erently,because those are the things which have made me what I am today,everything I have the audacity to speak today is thanks to all the

things I have done in the past. 5nd the best part of it was the people Idid all those things with, the people I so love, my partners in crime.0etting screwed alone feels bad, but getting screwed with them feelsawesome.

*remember this, no one girl or boy matters more than your parents,more than the people who show up at your house at @A on yourbirthday night with a beautiful cake but instead choose to celebratebut throwing their 7chappals8 at you, more than the people who saveyour ass in front of a girl at @A in the night. +hese are the people thatmatter, keep them close always.

*this is me, 5ditya )ubey, signing o=, once and for all, from theclasses, from the assignments, but never from the college, never fromthe garden or the canteen, from the wonderful teachers, ill stay, inyour hearts and memories, and you all in mine. 5nd as dward said toBella, no measure of time with you will be long enough, but lets just

start with forever, and forever begins, %&. heers guys.

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