It’s strange how life keeps making you go through things when you least expect it. My last night in the city of joys was not spent thinking about my friends, the memories or the pains I suffered in the past 3 years in that city. My last night was spent in the emergency room of AMRI hospital undergoing a very bad stomach ache which refused to go away till I was injected 7 times with some funny medicine. That night was enough to make my exit from Kolkata a rather ordinary ordeal and not to forget, on a train.
The excruciating pain I was undergoing was enough to keep my mind diverted from Kolkata and my friends from that great city while on the train. On reaching Jamshedpur, I was admitted into the hospital and it was while I was alone in my bed in a silent cabin up in the fifth floor of TMH that I realized my world had changed. Those 3 years spent with people who I didn’t know before 1st July 2008 suddenly came back and brought the first tears in my eyes in months. Life has its own way of making you stronger but somehow I didn’t seem to be equipped to handle the emotions I was feeling. A sharp feeling of having left your heart in a different city, a feeling of being incomplete, a feeling of having no one around to bug me with some work or random tom foolery filled me.
My 3 years in Kolkata has been a real roller-coaster ride, from being an unknown guy to being the always-on-the-edge biker boy of XCS, I saw everything. The feeling of being loved, betrayed, camaraderie, team work and most of all friendship. People say that you are remembered by the number of enemies you leave behind, I respectfully disagree, I think you are remembered by the number of hearts you touched when you are alive. The Sushant who left Kolkata was completely different from the Sushant who entered Kolkata with 2 bags full of luggage and a dream of starting over new. I left as a more matured person, a person who knew how life cheats when you least expect it to, a person who knew who he could count upon, a person who had bucket-loads of good and bad memories but most importantly a person who left the city knowing he had touched hearts. Call it bragging or the good vibes I got when I went through the presentation my lovely friends made me before I left Kolkata but something deep within told me I always did whatever was best for my friends and never gave them a chance to complain. We might have had tiffs and quarrels but I don’t think anyone of those have been so bad that they changed the love my friends had for me.
My blog is dedicated to all those people who gave me memories that will last me a lifetime. It is a funny thing that I have ‘time of my life’ playing as the background music at this moment. All you guys will have a special place in my heart, it doesn’t matter if I am a million miles away from you, I will always be there when you need me and if you know me well you know that Sushant will never go back on his word. You have no idea how much I miss each one of you at this moment. Someday, Somewhere, Somehow we all will be together once again and when that day comes, I will suit up just like I did for our XCS events and meet you guys with a 12 inch smile on my face and ask, ‘What up?’.
