THE WIND

Its pack-up time...not for me, but for the b-tech girls in NITC ladies hostel. Their exams are over and would leave tomorrow. The hostel will be deserted for the next three months, sans girls in short outfits, sans noise, sans celebration, sans fun. I do not know many of them, but it was indeed very nice to be with this swarm of noisy, intelligent human beings, in the mess, in the tv room and on the way out in the mornings.

The hostel is dull with all of them busy packing, cleaning and tidying up. In the process, the walkways have become messy with heaps of paper, thermocole, cardboards and lots of other junk. In a day or two, the bustle would die down. And i would be left behind, with my solitude. The solitude for which my heart yearned for years. It wud be difficult to believe but thats the truth. Yeah..ders a beauty in solitude!

The summer heat left me really uncomfortable in the third and the topmost floor of the hostel. And I discovered that the windows by the side of the stairs were excellent sources of fresh air and cool breezes. But, the exam bug bitten gals always promptly filled up those hotspots and gleefully...(o no..they were tensed ok) did their studying. Though i wud miss their presence, i am happy, those windows will now be mine.

And The Wind will be mine...

Its raining almost heavily here, after a really looongg tym !

I stand by the verandah on the topmost floor where i can get a really gud view of the ladies hostel. The Wind is pretty strong and it throngs me as though it loves me. The rain is not bad either. Its a great sight! The Wind playing around with the trees in the vicinity, making coconut trees go mad and drop a dried leaf(??) or branch,( i dun know wat to call it!) once in a while. The rain pouring down from heaven above. The windows are banging hard wherever its open. Down below, i can see gals carrying their luggage and mattresses to some other common location.

I shift my 'location' to the above said windows, and from their i can enjoy The Wind again, see the rain and the big playground beyond. Had it not been a playground (i mean kinda open space), The Wind wud not have been omnipresent.

Yeah, I will not get to see many human beings for the next month (after may my classes would resume and ma frnds would be bak!!) . But, I am so happy coz for some days ...

The Wind will be mine...:)

The rain will be mine...:)

and the star lit nights will also be mine...:)

( not to mention all the water in our water tank :P, u see, water is such a scarce resource; the lesser the number people to share it with, the better !!! )