The journey of an engineer

Every engineer( we can call him hero ) carries with him a saga that he loves to discuss with anybody,
When I say anybody, it can be a paanwala, a local wine shopkeeper, a hotel wala where he had his own clout (credits were available without a card too), a close friend( poor guy),a vendor or even a mirror where he can make faces and analyze his expressions and can admire his hard looks as a sign of his male chauvinism.
He can discuss at length various aspects of his life as if he has been a king through out his life.
He talks about how he has cleared exams with the help of "parchi"( parlance is necessary to understand this tricky term ), he narrates how he had ragged his juniors and how he was known
as the BOND of the college.You can see the joy of a child on his face when he cherishes these
memories.Various anecdotes will come out of his mouth as if an expert softie( you may call software engineer) is dexterously writing some business logic.
He abhores his present condition of being a white collar man and mumbles a few lines of
a sher -" Aaj itni may bhi nahi mayKhaane mein, Jitni hum chodd diya karte thhey paimaane mei ".
He really seems to miss those night outs where he and his yaars went for a cutting chaai to station at 2 a.m., he feels nostalgic whenever he watches any brawl on the end of the street.
He remembers how he and his hostel mates fought for the pride of their hostel.
How they competed in the sports meet with the spirit of not letting the hopes of their supporters down, how they sacrifised grades to take part in various activities and even when the teachers were not supporting them , they considered themselves as an icon of youth rebellion.
But today, he has left behind all those experiences.Now, he appeares as a sincere man at work who has never been involved in any sort of panga with anybody,who has never abused anybody and it appears as if he had always been a book worm who has abstained himself from all the obscenities of life.
Everybody says history repeats itself. Yes it does in exactly the same way as if we are watching any replay.Another 'Hero' comes , enjoys his life in campus and follows the path of our ex-Hero and finds him as his boss after completeing his college and then thinks that how idiotic this man is, who never crackes jokes , never takes initiave in fun loving things and then passes a judgement that this man has never enjoyed his college life.
But a thing remains common to both of them and that is their saga that they carry with them to their tomb too.

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Siddhartha
(Another Softie)