Reflections @60: Deja-vu Feel in the Alumni Meet
Shankar Jaganathan
Author, Independent Director & A Passionate Student of Corporate Governance & Sustainability
This is the 32nd of my 60 planned posts of Reflections@60. Thank you for your time and feedback.
Reflections @60: Deja-vu Feel in the Alumni Meet
Anxious I started the journey, not sure how the experience would be. Spending three days with them, was it a decision that I would regret, I wondered after I had agreed to attend the Alumni meet, the first in 30 years. But there are some obligations you must honour, no matter what.
A super achiever held in awe despite the close relationship we had in college, the go-to man for all resources, especially of the liquid kind, the technical master, who is grudgingly respected for his technical prowess, the college twins and triplets who were and are always together, the talented singer evoking the memories of the bygone days and the joker in the pack to keep everyone smiling and laughing. While the cast varies in all the alumni meets, each of the role defined somehow remains intact. On the second day, as I successfully matched the cast with the role, I had a sense of deja-vu. I had to remind myself that it was my wife’s alumni meet and I was the accompanying spouse. Unlike other spouses accompanying the alumni, I was the odd male who did not belong to their veterinary medicine profession. Result, I spent most of my time with the core group, discreetly analysing their conversation.
Returning at the end of the three-day resort stay, I realised while the dates and people change, events and emotions of the college days remain the same. I believe most of us could walk into any alumni meet and feel at home substituting members of our batch with the cast assembled for the day. Another matter I cherish is the relationship I built with my wife’s classmates as we had one common factor to unite us.
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