down the memory lane

When you stop dreaming (I mean the sleep dream kinds), your cerebellum being a compulsive dreamer, starts swinging in a pandemonium, oscillating between memory lane and ‘forged’ future.

Down the memory lane, I see

• Sister’s first day of school
• My first day at school
• Younger sister cradled
• Younger sister dead
• First girl friend carrying my bag and lunch
• First sofa
• First Almarah
• Summer vacations
• Hordes of cousins
• Aunty married
• Me behind the camera lens
• 16 MM projector
• Temple pranks
• 1.2 KV generator
• Self proclaimed mechanic
• Scooter
• Youngest baby to cradle (1 hour old)
• Adventure club
• Pen pal club (ya… I was actually in a pen pal club hahhahah)
• Rock band
• Memory verse champion
• Sunday School
• Football
• Board Exams
• Gang fight
• Books (O Henry, Henry David Thoreau, abridged classics, Tintin, Spiderman)
• High school sweetheart
• First Kiss
• The rise of the rebel
• Books (psychology, kinestics, chaos theory, Darwin, all classics)
• Odd jobs
• Young detective
• Walk out of home
• Walk out of exams
• EAMCET
• Bike
• Internet enthusiast
• Despondent GF
• University
• Zealous Christian
• Biggest Failure (for all), sweet victory for me (in failure)
• Books (Kant, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Milton, Lewis, GK Chesterton)
• First paper (optics)
• BARC
• MBA entrances
• First Job
• PM @ 21 – Cocky and correct
• CII – first taste of creating money
• Hacking
• Anti porn activist
• Freelance
• My own diamonds
• Books (Gyaan mgmt unlimited)
• Parents Silver Jubilee
• MBA
• Bhopal
• More papers in progress
• LMS – International assignments
• Peace maker
• Sister’s marriage
• Shrouded relationship
• Mumbai
• Ivana
• Business consulting
• Delhi
• Blogs
• Car
• Himalayas
• Awards
• Behind the scenes
• Appreciation, more appreciation
• The piped piper
• Fiddler on the roof
• Best relationship
• Vizag
• Demographics
• Best Friend
• New business line

'forged' future

• IVY league
• US / Europe
• Marriage?
• fast cars
• PHD
• Entrepreneur
• VP
• Apologist
• Gyan Guru / Strategist
• Musician
• Books (Negative Slack theory, Magnetic Resonance, A few fiction)
• 35 ?