You might be thinking what I am going to say or which place I am gonna describe. First let me give you a try. Think about a paradise on Earth. Consider all the possibilities. You might have thought about the seven wonders or the emerging wonders. But unless you have an experience like me, you wouldn’t have got the correct answer (That is the place I am gonna describe in this post)
OK, let me start with the word PARADISE. There are two meanings for it when I referred the dictionary which is as follows::1) Heaven and 2) A state/place of extreme bliss. Bliss or happiness is the emotion for which all the people are struggling for. You may be thinking why to struggle if you can get this happiness by just being at a place. I don’t think the place I am gonna describe is a place that solves all your problems. Rather it may create problems . But for me that place is happiness. By a place...or else in civil engineering terms... 'A 75 acre area' .I intend to describe about a 75 acre area that have given me happiness (at least till now) by just being there... I don’t know whether I would be able to convey what is in my heart about this special place, but I would rather try.
Right from the moment I set my foot in that place, I felt the feeling, yes this place will change me and yes now it has. I keep telling it as ‘place’ till now, and some of you might have been fed up by hearing it or guessing what it is. Now, I am not gonna keep you in suspense (Although most of you might have cracked it!!), I am talking about my beautiful college...Government Engineering College, Thrissur. If I start talking about my college, I may not find words to describe. Still I haven't found out what’s special there. But it is a fact that GEC is special, at least for me.
First attraction I had about GEC is its large campus. Coming from a school with cramped buildings (But it was a wonderful place...in a different way) the large campus startled me. Right from the first day I started exploring GEC by taking different routes home. It was during this exploration I learnt that each point on GEC is named...The Civil bench, Mech tree, Lover's corner and the great GALLERY.
Speaking of the Gallery, which is the old and partly destroyed steps surrounding the athletic ground, it can be regarded as my favourite place in the campus. It has been my hangout place in college. That is the place where I simply sit chatting to my friends. But there is a special feeling when you sit there. You would feel free. All the assignments, record works and deadlines (The other part of an engineering course) seems to vanish. Really, you have to experience that. Also I had spent some of my depressed time at the gallery alone, listening to my favourite lines there. I don’t know which healing spirit did it, but my mind calmed down there. Such a wonderful place!!!
Similarly each end every square inch of GEC is charming also each of them have a history. The first time, I stepped on the campus; a flux board welcomed me 'Chenkotayileku Swagatham' otherwise 'Welcome to the RED FORT'. Yes, GEC is one college that is filled with a long history which you see in every room there. Each and every dust particle in GEC has something to say. Let it be the strikes during the emergency, or the success stories of students otherwise the love stories of the GECians, or may be it shouts at us about the strong bond of friendship of the comrades who walked through that dusty tarmac.
More than all this, what made me love GEC, is that, it is GEC’s environment that have changed me. From an introvert computer nerd at the previous institution, I changed into a social animal here at GEC.I learnt how to speak, interact and above all express myself. If it wasn't for GEC, I would not even have started blogging. It’s the place that gave me courage and made me understand that I am different and that every person is unique. Even before Manirathnam conveyed it through his film Raavanan, GEC taught me the film’s theme, that every person/everything in the world have both a Raman and a Raavanan in them/it. GEC also taught me that it is me, who has to find the best in whatever I am dealing with.
Above all, GEC, is the institution that helped me meet so many wonderful people, I would rather say trustworthy friends, the only asset in my life till now. I don’t know whether all my friends here at GEC will be there forever with me but I am sure that I would be missing all of them after this amazing era of my life if they are not with me.
It’s not that I have finished telling about GEC, but this is all I can write. The truth is that my life at GEC is full of emotions that I am unable to express in words. If I go on, I may not end it. But time is precious now. And you know what I have got about 3 experiments to write into my fair record.
Keep smiling
HOLA!!
