Monday, February 7, 2011

End of another Chapter

The book of life turned its leaves and I found that i have arrived at an end of another chapter. Another episode has come to an end with this new year. The new year began with a frenzy of assignments and exams and study leave. we knew that a new year has dawned but no one could really ponder on it. One might ask "what is there to think about a new year?" but well, its a NEW year. A whole year has gone by and we are another year older ;)
However the end of the chapter i was referring to was not the end of the new year, but rather it was something that the new year brought with it. The End of our life at university. 

Once with the dawn of 2008 we got our A/L results. I can still remember how the results were released on the 1st of January.  And that year marked the end of the chapter of school life. And after nearly three years now the new year brought with it another change.

Life at university could not be called as a bed of roses. It has its pits and rises and along with it there were loads of memories. I spent two and half years away from home in the burning sun and amidst the towers of concrete of Colombo. We found new friends and collected some memories. Some left lasting footprints in the heart, memories to last a life time. It was a new world for me to struggle with - the university. I guess that it was the same for all of us. Away from home and alone in a world unknown, we somehow learned to survive. Learnt the hard way that you cant always accept for granted that everyone is a friend. Learnt the hard way that there are many "Nool sooththara" people in the world. 

But along with this came the realization and the appreciation that there are also some sweet people in this world who will die for you.[Maybe dying is a bit of a exaggeration. But I hope that i drove the point in :) ] I found some people for whom I can sacrifice my own happiness, for whose happiness i would do anything. They created happy memories that always brings a smile to the face.

Of course studies wise we learnt a lot as well i guess. But that is yet to be seen when the results are released ;)

Somehow its not easy to believe that I might not meet all my friends again as i used to do each day. Sometimes its hard to imagine a life without them. A life without all our mad talk, talk that no one else could easily understand coz of our list of code words. How can anyone know that a kandyan fantasy refers to a person? that a mosquito is a person? that big star is a person? that for us pink was not merely a color but something more than that??? :D :D :D But I guess that life moves on and the people we value and the people who value us- in short, the real friends, will remain forever.

So that would be about the end of another chapter in my life. I turned the page and now its over, and yet its memories will remain with me forever :) :) :)


Tuesday, December 28, 2010

In the Middle of the Night

Well... let's see now. First a word of warning to all who are reading this!!!! This is my first attempt at blogging. So this might be a total mess. But on the other hand this might turn out to be just great. No idea :)
Anyway i'm hoping to come up with a few poems in this, some views of the world and some.. who knows what.

First of all before i jump in to more posts i think i might have to explain my title of this blog. Of course there are all sorts of blogs with weirder and weirder names. But I dont really wanna be one of the "weirdos" though some might think being a weirdo is pretty cool. Ah! that might make me sound like a one of highly upright, 'I'm always doing the right thing" kind of a girl.. :) Well.. thats not much away from the truth, I am that type but there are also sides to me that are not so. I guess we all have many sides to us. Good and bad, nice and evil, but we all want to act as Saints :)

So that was a bit of my mind wandering. Anyway if I come back to what I was saying, well the name "Fantastical Reality" was given coz I think that we really live in a fantastical reality. A world of fantasy, a world of dreams. Most of us look at the world through rosy, tinted glasses.(a metaphor of my own) We mostly dont see the world or its people as they really are. But of course thats life. We learn as we go through life, each new day is a new experience. Yet so far this reality hasnt been much harsh. I know that we all have difficulties to be come across in our life. Stepping stones to step by. But well.... the reality I have lived so far is a fantastical to me. Not a fantasy mind you... but just fantastical as in great :)

So It is about this fantastical reality that I will be writing about. The way i see the world and its people.. (My view of the world, through my rosy tinted glasses) :) :)