Happy New Year.. yea sure..

As is pretty obvious, I have been tardy in joining the "new year bandwagon". Five days of the new year have passed, and i think now would be about perfect time to post something before the new year wears out its welcome.

This new year or at least its advent was by far the best I have ever had - I celebrated it. Pune became the unlikely (or may be not so unlikely) location of my New year celebration. The last day of 2006 went by without much hue or cry, nor did it seem to drag along as I half expected it to..i mean it is the last day, wouldn't it want to last longer? And as the clock struck midnight, i had my tryst with a sort of a realization. I was happy, for I was with the love of my life in the very first minute of the new year (though, the lingering thought that somewhere else the new year had already started a few hours back was ever present); but the more I looked around, the more I realized that nothing earth shattering was actually happening. I was in the Pune station area, on a slightly elevated level, which I was happy to assume was my apotheosis.

Though in the distance all around me there were those coruscating fire crackers, right underneath me there was life going on as usual, people carrying on as if nothing had happened, no celebrations no excitement, no zeal, no signs of life other than the most ordinary ones. Yes, the station was alive, but the life in it seemed to come from the hum-drum and banal activities of the people, and not from celebration of joy of the new year. Asiad buses packed with people entered and exited the bus station nearby, Autowallas hunting for people to scalp, an eunuch going about doing his thing, the traffic moving at its slow Pune pace.

To all who might think that the juxtaposition of such antithetic ideas might have been cathartic to my nature or anything. All it did was stifle my enthusiasm a little bit, nothing which being with Aditi can't cure. Two minutes later, I was back with Aditi, and we continued our celebration. After all, its hard to stay mad (or sad/apathetic in this case) when there is so much beauty around you.

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... You will someday.