A JOURNEY OF NOSTALGIA, RETROSPECT AND SUBMISSION

I badly needed to get this off my conscious! Thank You LMC!!

Nostalgia:

Guys really this feeling of Nostalgia has got the better of me. Being Nostalgic is always blissful but this experience was something more.

Memories from the time I joined LMC in Lower Nursery till the time we passed out as a batch in 1982 are simply floating as if the Divine has also boarded this nostalgic journey.

As much as I try to recollect this Re union at The School Round Chapel, under the Aura of our Founder Major General Claude Martins Statue with all you Guys, Teachers past and present, and the Party we had at Vedic Village I just keep wondering back to pre 1982. It took me some time to re concile that this was because there was simply no difference between then and now! This realization was simply amazing. The same bonding, spirit and grace. It seemed as though we were meeting maybe only after a summer vacation!!

Surely, for me this was not a re union of 2006, it was a normal school day and party for me Guys, and this nostalgia will remain for sure.

Retrospect and Submission :

A fair retrospect would have me admitting that I as the days passed my attitude towards life, my thoughts, my compassions and feelings kept changing. Whenever, I felt a change in myself I would treat it as Law of Nature which I had presumed permits such changes with age, time and priorities.

Whilst, I would seem to be content with the changes, but every passing day would reminiscent “Those Glorious Day “ and I could never understand why this was so.

But I thankfully wish to submit that this Re Union has given me the answer.

All of us were the same as we were 25 years back. Not one of us had actually changed… else this bonding could not have been as it was.

I wish to submit that it has made me realize that could be it was my build up ego, my priorities, my ambitions, and social commitments, that was imposing in me a superficial change, which I was actually never happy with but chose not to ignore, and only the thoughts of “ Those Glorious Days “ may have kept me nourished.

I wish to submit that it has made be realize that one is born a child, and always remains a child. Nature does not permit this to change. One may mature with age, but always will remain a child at Heart.

I wish to summit that and I will now not permit my ego and priorities to come in way of what Nature has given me. I will not interfere with prerogatives over which I have no right, and let them take their own course.

The next time we meet you guys will hear me saying “ Those and the Present Glorious Days”

Thanks giving:

Dear friends, I do feel that this Re Union will not be complete without a Thanksgiving.

The great enjoyment, pleasure and time we had needs to be reciprocated appropriately.

I humbly propose that the LMC Batch of 82 should come forward and reciprocate by way of a hearty contribution to Children who may not be as privileged.

Trust me friends this show will go on!!!