The "CHANGE" that follows us !!!

How things around change is a very constant surprise we get as we grow old. My visit to my place where I always felt I belonged to, "MANIPAL .." was so different. I'm glad that memories we have don't change. It was an irony after this visit that I had only unchanged memory with me.

I strongly believe that everything around happens for a reason. People change so that you can let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they are right, you believe lies so that eventually you learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. This is what Manipal taught me.

The walk through the corridors was always filled with the anxiety before any submissions, satisfaction of finishing work, celebration of friendships, crys of mess ups, this time it was just a walk of being proud. Proud of what the place made me grow into.

The change that has evolved to this place which I am not happy about, is a result of making the place look glorious with rich materials and fantasizing it to the materialistic world. It felt funny you learn that red oxide flooring and tile roof helps in a humid climate. but we changed the flooring to vitrified tile and RCC roof to make you feel how its to be in oven or may be I should say an expensive oven. The land of laterite stone was cladded with bricks for some joy. And we still appreciate when we read that Frank Lloyd Wright said "A building is not on the site but of the site".

Whats forgotten is students have been literate by studying at Gurukul. Its not the materials that makes a good student smart. Its the way how a student relates and grows with whats taught and what he experiences around.
Who takes the resposible for right change ?