“What’s an Opportunity to a man who’s never had enough?” - By Devyani Konkati of BSC BTCFS Second Year

 

 

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The mind was always perplexed when it thought of opportunities. Were they awaited for, or, were they created? It was indeed a deep dilemma on how opportunities worked. But the only thing which was sure, was, it came with insufficiency and sacrifices.

To someone who has never had enough, opportunity is like a small ray of hope through a pinhole, but as a double-edged sword, it is also the darkness surrounded by the walls of a war room. Opportunity is a mirage, an illusion created when you are vulnerable although you weren’t in a desert the whole time. It is the time where one needs to choose, whether to give up everything for anything, or, give up anything for everything. Opportunities are never fair, they are partial and biased, to only those who were greedy and selfish for themselves. It came to those who snatched it in a blink of an eye. It waits for none nor does it comes late. Getting an opportunity is as easy as to breathe, but to grab and live it, is as difficult as to breathe during your last moments. That is why man is always whining when he has no opportunities but is reluctant as soon as he is served one, no matter what kind of circumstances he is in.

The man keeps revolving in the cycle of insufficiency which explains that a man who’s never had enough, is a fool who has everything, but fails to realize it. The absence of enough, breeds the man with resilience, but at the same time it makes man dangerously adaptable and unstoppable.

Opportunities makes man addicted to things like hope and faith. But the worst part is, that they only come when they are least expected, when the man is hopeless and least faithful. To seize an opportunity is to take risk and cease fire against the odds of life. It is to stay curious on where life leads you to. Life is not fair to everyone that is why, in this world of fools, only those who go against the odds, win and those who rise up before everyone does, survive.

Opportunities are the world’s ultimate Pandora box waiting to be opened by those who defy the insufficiency. 

"Humanity" - By Florence Jesudasen of B.Sc. BTCFS Second Year 

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Where has all the humanity gone,

When will all of it end,

When will all of it stop,

What will take the human race to love again.

When will the broken hearts be restored,

When will the pain be treated,

When will the trauma be removed,

When will love be enchanted.

It's a boundless river full of hate,

It's a sea filled with hopeless fate,

The last string of hope for humanity is being cut off 

The only string called love is ending.

Inspite of darkness there's still a chance

To create a world so exquisite,

Where hate and prejudice is not sown by our hands, just a leap of faith 

Where has all the humanity gone.

“Dear Me - I Apologise” – By Bhumika Raikote of BA Second Year

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I apologise to keep you at last in my priority list. When you needed rest, when you couldn’t work, when you were emotionally broken, I forced you to act in the drama of life. When you were required to be healed, I kept you alone and didn’t let you share your feelings. I always challenged your emotions and asked you to smile even in the deepest scars of life. I forced you to skip your choices. I am sorry, when you said, “I couldn’t move”, I asked you to run, when you were wounded, I applied salt on your wounds instead of antiseptic. I always hurted you more and more when you were in deep pain. I gave you the guilt which you didn't deserve. I didn’t allow you to interfere when decisions of your life were taken by others. Sorry, I gave you the wrong instructions of living a life.

“Last semester” - By Swaroop Kanwar of BA Final Year

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Here begins our last semester, the last phase of a long journey of three years. This will be the last time we copy the subject syllabus in our notebooks, roam around the college campus during the free hours and plan the college events. Eventually, the last time, we all saying each other, “five missions successfully accomplished, last one to be passed”. We joined, unaware of what we want to do, life tried to get us on the right track, maybe we turned slightly a bit towards it, but still a very long way to go. The upcoming five months seems to be very complicated, many thoughts have to be untangled, pack our bag of memories, that we would always hold dear, carry the warmth of love and wisdom acquired by our teachers, that would guide us in our forthcoming journey, and to answer the most crucial question, “What's next?”. 

So, lets begin our way towards this precious and vital span of time with the will of making this phase much more productive, memorable and effective.

And truth it is that, time flies very fast.