My farewell speech

  

Good evening, respected principal, teacher, and my dear friends, I stand here not as the GS of this meritorious institute but as your friend, before starting my speech I deeply thank our faculty and staff for arranging this fabulous function in the blink of an eye just for us. My deepest gratitude towards my 2-guiding light prof. Mishra and prof. shelar.

 if I could summarize my journey in a word it would be ‘amazing!’

We live in unprecedented times, in my first year, if someone told me that your farewell will be done on a computer, in the awestruck of the sheer audacity of this ridiculous comment, I’d be amused in disbelief. But see here we are facing each other while facing our screens, the pandemic has torn us apart but also got us together in unimaginable means. I thought now that it’s our final year id lose touch with my friends that I’ll have to face the demons alone, also known as “growing up” but I’m glad that my friends didn’t leave me, they were there, with the love and support id find in their presence.

In many ways the pandemic has given us the impetus to real lives. In the ties ahead I can say if we survived a pandemic together, we can survive anything.

When we came to this institution, we all were naïve kids, bubbling in our own space, it was our teachers who have been incredibly patient and extraordinarily gracious to guide us, shape us into who we are, and set up for who we’ll become. It goes without saying that our college has some of the most brilliant and dedicated faculties in the entire nation. I’m glad to be a part of such an institution where the students make equal memories with their teachers as they do among friends.

Wo sports day me teachers Ki wicket Lena, wo journal pe sign ke liye aapke peeche bhagna,

Wo choti choti nooks nikal kar apka wapas bhejdena nahi bhulunga mai… jab tak hai jaan … jab tak hai jaan

Wo class me late aana, teacher ka class se nikalna, mass bunk bol ke class lagana, thumb print se attendance mark karke bhag jaana,  nahi bhulunga mai…. jab tak hai jaan… jab tak hai jaan

 

I also made a lot of friends. Friends who I hang out with, who helped me in studies, who I danced my heart out with, friends who helped me find myself, my deeds would go in vain if I didn’t thank them. The time we spent together exposed me to different cultures and traditions. I’ve done things with and for people I seldom would have done if I didn’t come here.

The thought of us coming so close in such less time still boggles my mind.

I’m also tremendously thankful to our non-teaching staff, who unknowingly taught us so much…

The mam at fees counter, who finned us for late payment of fees taught me the value of time and well…money.

Our dear maushis who scolded us ruthlessly for stepping on the wet floor taught us to value someone else’s hard work as we do ours.

Our librarians taught us the importance of ……. no, actually they didn’t teach us anything good!

I’m just kidding those ground floor folks taught us the most important lesson of – organization, the simple deed of keeping your belongings organized has saved me enormous amounts of hassle in my student life.

I can’t show my gratitude enough for our dear principal, I call him dear because he always treated us like friends, he listened to our queries and complaints. He stood hellbent to improve college for us indeed pushing us to become better versions of ourselves.

This time here I’m sitting in my room yet being with all of you brings me back to my early days, when I had yet a lot to learn, and it's only because of your guidance and love that I sit here in front of you reading my speech.

Today I sit before the greatest class that graduated this premises, we survived the coronavirus pandemic and the pharmacy curriculum. We’re the first 1 in history. I have no doubts that we’re destined for greatness. Today we graduate and go apart with priceless knowledge and endless concern for each other, the memories made here will always be in our hearts and smartphones.

When other children of my age dreamt about being a cop or saving the world, I had nightmares of mislabeling my syrup bottles, and using transparent ones instead of amber-colored.

It only feels like yesterday when I stepped into Tanaji sir’s lab and learned how to make syrups and label them, the admission in the college has been a dream come true.

Now that we sit among each other for 1 last time, I see some of us being the CEOs of multinational companies, some will on to discover the drug that’ll revolutionize humanity. The founders of the next Cipla and sun pharma, and its biggest distributors all sharing a screen. Some even extraordinary to leave everything behind in the pursuit of art, maybe become the next supermodel. No matter how the world treats you, no matter what you become after this call ends, I feel extremely lucky to have shared my time with you guys, it’s been an honor to be with you.

On my parting note I’d like to refer to a scene from my favorite movie ‘kung fu panda’ it’s when Po the panda has worked super hard to become a kung fu master  and earn the dragon scroll but couldn’t decipher the teachings in the great ancient wisdom and is disappointed that all the hard work he did until now is vain… that he is not the dragon warrior. His dad then unknowingly teaches him the most valuable lesson. The knowledge that become the core philosophy of the movie, the teaching that ‘there is no secret ingredient to making anything special or being special it’s just you. You only have to believe in it to make it special.’

 And hence today I leave you with this thought and my best wishes that we believe in ourselves and work to get better every day, and one day we’ll fulfill our destiny

Thank you.