Missing Presidency ..............Again!

I am listning to Anjan Dutta and somehow i am transported back in time to Presidency College.............Going through the morning classes and after the fourth period going to the canteen...................endless cups of tea............me ,madhubanti,bonbon,souditi,tanmoyda,didi,madhurima,rito....................one incident i clearly remember...............we were talking as usual about everything under the sun from politics to shah rukh khan.............it was january..................a few days before milieu..............so a couple of ex students had come down and they were talking about the times they had in presidency.......................and there were these two first year students...............and they were talking about the injustice of the current left administration...what could be done to rectify it............one of them was so excited he actually pounded on the wooden desk to make his point....................and one of the alumni turned,looked and smiled................he must have seen something of himself five years back in that kid .................how all those ideals he had believed in so ardently had given way to more mundane and immediate concerns like salary,bad boss..............

now that he has some time.......................he is content just to reminisce.................it's like Bernard Shaw had said"the old soldiers carry chocolates and the young ones carry bullets".
That's what i don't love about growing up....................the urgent things takes precedence over important things..............but whatever urgent may not be most important..............

Miss all those things,the canteen,the Derozio building,baker building,geology rock,the bookshops,the frenzy before milieu,the disappointment after it was over......................in retrospect how could it have been so perfect?