A cautionary fore statement would be that this post is in no way related to Valentine’s day or the likes. (The author believes the whole concept of Valentine’s day blah is nothing more than overrated celluloid induced kitsch, but well! That’s just the author’s opinion and a completely different story reserved for another day)
Anyway, I just sit here wondering what was going through my head and life at this time of the year over the last many years. I am surprised with a realization that I am mildly victimized by a selective memory phenomenon. In other words, I don’t really remember what I was doing during the Valentine’s day week pre-2006. Honestly, I really don’t 😉
In 2006, I remember being on a roll. I had just lost some weight, feeling very good. IIIT-H (my alma mater) was having her annual fest , felicity. It was fun though I spent my moments wondering
- if I should get a girl friend (haha! As if they grow on trees!) or continue to live a free life ( Khula saand if I am allowed to use the partial profanity :p)
- if I should seriously give CAT a shot or have a happy workless life working in some small time company
2007 V-day week was a little more eventful. I had to prepare hard for two things … the IIM interviews and trying to finish more than 4 laps at the Gachibowli stadium’s swimming pool (never managed to 😦 ) And of course, life was taking quite a beating on the emotional side due to my sheer lack of emotions (or rather no opportunity to display them) in life around that point of time. (dead inside ?! What a loser … :P)
2008 V-day week was at Joka (God bless Joka!! ) , the IIM-Calcutta campus. Academically, it was the worst period of my life. No dont get me wrong . Life was awesome … but my scores were low that term. So thats why the previous statement.
Anyway, it was also the time when I carried out some self inflicted fradulent romanticism. For instance, since most of my pals were blaming me for the highest levels of insensitivity, I went to the jetty on the night of 14th Feb, took a chocolate , said *happy valentine’s day* and threw it into the lake. The jolly good batchmates of mine actually thought I was treating the campus lake like a wishing well for future romantic opportunities . Lol … how sweet of them ! little did they know that I did it only because I was a tad drunk and was trying to get rid of the chocolate because a caterpillar crawled on it … voila !
2009 and 2010 V-day weeks were killers … I wouldn’t talk too much about personal stuff 🙂
2011 V-day week …. started off with Lalla getting married 😀 and I was so happy for him…see! So much for fellows blaming me on the insensitivity factor. Now I have to go someday to London to party with Lalla and Lalli 😉
Well ! Right now … I am sitting here with my bags packed and would be on a flight to Palolem, (Goa) in another couple of hours . Well I am not exactly a romantic… more like a party fella who enjoys the dark paradoxes of life a little too well …need I say more ! 🙂
– Ghost Runner
Et tu, Ghost-Runner 
