Sailing thru my memories

Its feb 25th 2006 past 11:30pm..... its Synapse time, tech fest of our college. Every1 are eagerly waiting for the footloose (dance competition) results. The results are being announced...The third prize goes tooooo... a long pause the third prize goes to "Euphorics" of DA-IICT......oh my god... thts us... thts our team

For a moment i cudnt believe wht i heard... suddenly many thoughts flashed my mind... i was sure that i ll get second prize... we did too well... next moment i thought prize is not we are aiming at.. This is our final year in da college, and we wanted to present our best and we did it...

I started getting msgs.. "I dnt know about the judges bt u r my winners"..."tht was really a superb performance"..."thts awesome man"...... even after a week aftr da performance ppl are comin to me nd tellin me tht the theme was good, performance is superb etc etc. Then i thought yes we did it.... our destiny has been served, winnin a prize isnt our destiny bt winnin their hearts.

I sat alone and was njoying da success...i went bk to da very beginning of my dance career.
It was when I was in 11th grade, five of our frens thought to give a performance at da farewell party to our seniors. We decided in da clg, tht evening we went to karthik's house decided da song practiced a little nd i was late to home. First i said that there was an extra class, bt i cudnt keep quite fr longer after lying, i went to my mom and said tht I along wid my frens had decided to give a dance performance....u shud hv looked at my mom at tht moment. She felt like I was going on a wrong track, i gt spoiled, i m nt concentrating on my studies. My parents thought of me as da same old naveen who studies well, who comes first in da class... but they dint realize tht hes grown, has some tastes... nt their fault too, they hd expectations on me, the environment in which I was brought up had these sort of things out of da boundary. They started to behave stangely towards me, said hes grown nw, wants to dance n bla..bla... they wanted me to tell them evrything n if i say they behave in such manner... i cudnt take it... bt slowly i gt used to it, bt never find fault frm their side too.

Frankly speaking my dad doesnt like these type of things, dancing, roaming around wid frens. He thinks they r jus waste of time, when we r here fr a goal. But he is such a person tht he understands other persons views and honours them. He is neither for ne nor against me, jus a neutral spectator. He was in such a situation tht he cudnt encourage me nor cn he say no to me. This went on, i cm late to home, mom askd me da reason n my reply was "dance practice", she gets irritated with tht, stoped speakin to me. I too behaved strangely, became stubborn refused to speak, eat. Wht else can I do, feeling lonely, no support, cnt leave practice in da middle as i love it, cnt go against my parents wish. Dnt know hw bt i decided to go on n complete da practice successfully.

Everything went on smoothly in da practice, finally the day had arrived, we performed good, my first performance was gooood. Came home n found every1 slepping, dad asked me hw was it, I said it was good, he congratulated me, bt nt wid da fullest of his hearts. I was hurt, bt cudnt do nything. Next day in da clg evry1 was congratulating me tht da show was good. Suddenly I became very popular frm studious naveen reddy to "Dancer" naveen reddy. Hahahaha, cheers to da dance partners.

After tht I joined DA-IICT n here I found a good partner abhishek sharma, hes very energetic n specially to mention very spontaneous. Both of us gave a performance in da first sem, know wht that was a super success n i became famous in da clg. Aftr tht we did many performances in da clg on many occassions won many prizes. The comments tht we get frm da audiance r da things tht matter, n we always impress them. Many ppl ask me whr did u learn to dance?? Did you go to dance school?? When listening to these sort of things I question myself am I really that good?? noo.. Im nt. I jus dance coz i love it, i do it with full commitment, leaving behind all my tensions, I dance like no ones thr to stop me.

Slowly sailing thru all those memories I finally reached to da present. Whenever some1 asks me abt dance, I in myself will sail thru all those hardships n successes i went thru till nw, jus in a faction of a second. I dnt know hw to end this, bt I jus felt like putting them down, so I did.... thts all.