This day, Last year....April 12, 2009.
A day that I would remember even in my death bed. Yes, I was to leave a place that was literally considered myself where I belong to. 22 years, A Golden Period.
This place has seen my childhood through my adolescence to adulthood. Enjoying most of the luxury, which I didn't realize then, that I was so lucky to just be there. The biggest gated-community I have ever seen. Open Air-Theater, School at a distance which is not even a kilometer away,Cricket Ground, Swimming Pool to chill out, Officers' Club, Gymkhana, Shuttle Badminton, Beach on the sides of the Port, occasional ammonia leakage from Dad's company which I can still smell under my nose, chemical dust heaps, Cycle Puncture Stand, Generator Shed and much more things that cannot be sufficed with mere adjectives. It was a place full of life abuzz with joy.
I lived like a King with my own boundary defined. But that fine day, came when I have to leave back everything that this wondrous home, no, I would call it heaven, had given me. A sapling can be moved, planted anywhere, but a tree can't be.Why should not life have a rewind button.
Above all these bonding to the place, it was the friends I made since childhood was the terrible part to leave behind. But life has to move on. Relationships are tested when we part ways. Happy that we stay in touch with the whichever way possible. Many thanks to social networking sites and instant messaging service providers.
65kmph+ was the speed with which I usually I drive. My heart did not have the strength to rev the car's engine more than 40kmph. Dumping everything into the car, was crawling out the gates on the way to the airport. A chapter of my life that had a very abrupt ending.
The place is now facing its doom , due to wretched management of the industries. People there are finding means to switch over. It is really hurting to see a place where I grew up being ripped apart from all sides.
