Euro 2008 is on. The thrilling matches with fouls, goals, saves, shots etc are on everybody’s tongue and mind. It was all nostalgic to me. It took me back to Euro 2004, the first year of my career. I recapped my bachelor shared accommodation with Vikram, Gurpreet, Sulabh and Rajiv when all the things were so disorganized, when there was no planning in life, when decisions were made at spur of moment and when we were just exhilarating in our independent life. Euro 2004 jogged my memory because we were so crazed about the matches, that after 3-4 days of catching matches at one’s place or other’s, we decided to purchase a T.V. just to catch the match. Nobody cared if it was affordable or not. We had to live miser’s life for next few months but it was worth it. There was late night watching of football combined with shrieks, hu-ha-hus and every usage of the big F word. Sometimes intermixed with beer, sometimes with whisky and sometimes with just plain water the whole Euro month was exciting.

Life has moved on since then. Everybody of us is busy in his own life. Some have moved out of Mumbai (including me) and some out of country but at this moment nobody of those five roommates are living under same roof. I, for one, have another very important person in my life and all my priorities are diverted towards her. Now everything is organized, planned and not haphazardly decided. Now life is with more responsibility. I think I speak the same for each one of us. But I guess each one of us has accepted and absorbed this change and for good only.