Enthralling Trails

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. ~ Lazurus Long The dignitaries sat on the stage. It included the Directors and Principals of the senior college, the Management college, the college of E d u c a t i o n , and the upcoming school in the campus. The occasion was a normal one, the age old one, a farewell, a retirement, a superannuation. The faculty members and the non teaching staff were the audience, I could see our Principal dressed for the occasion. It was his retirement. A second retreat at the age of sixty five. He was to head  the upcoming research center , and would be there in the campus, yet it made us feel the pain. He held his head high in pride as he had indeed completed his tenure to the utmost satisfaction, which was worth the pleasure. It took me back to the day when my father retired from his job. Each day before the superannuation, he would  dread the upcoming retirement as a disease, perhaps as a languish of...