Already Ending?

By: Aadya Gupta

3rd year, BA Program (Philosophy and Sociology)

Design: Ragini

It’s 25th January 2025, and I am writing this as I sit down with my college friend Arushi at her place on a swing while the sunlight hits our face, and we both think to ourselves the same thought, “Oops, sunscreen nahi lagayi !”.

The similarity of thoughts such as this is what makes us friends, or maybe what made us click back in 2022 in November when most of us, third year students, were roaming around like lost ducks in college longing for someone to show us the path.

For me, though, it was a little different because my best friend, whom I have known since the third standard also got the same college, but soon she decided to change college, and that is when I realised that I didn't try to make new friends.

But thankfully, because a lot of out-stationed students were still coming to college, I ended up meeting some of the greatest people I have met in my life. Some days I feel like I am adopted by a bunch of Rajasthani girls, who have made me realise the importance of dal bati churma and water (pun intended), some days it's me bringing “ghar ka khana” for them, which they inhale in one go. All in all, this bunch of crazy Rajasthanis along with other girls makes me look forward to going to college every day. It was never about maintaining attendance or attending lectures (I do, though); it was actually watching these faces that light up my day and shower me with hugs and kisses.

Though for me, college was not just the AMAZING people I have met but also the professors or just “a professor” I came across. My philosophy professor, whose first batch was us, had and still continues to have a great impact on my college life. Starting from going to college just to attend her lectures in first year and now sitting hours with her, going from discussing, “Do I exist or am I just dreaming?” to “I am reading Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, nowadays.”. I will always be grateful to this college for giving me such an amazing professor who, with her constant encouragement and constructive criticism, helped me become a better student of philosophy.

But keeping everything aside, life has its own way of making you feel special. The Aadya who was scared of going to school in third standard, whose mother was scared that she would not make any friends, who did not talk to anyone except her family, who used to eat her lunch alone ended up being the biggest yapper ever in a life full of yappers around her who make her feel so special that she wishes and hopes this 6th semester never ends :)

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