Recently I attended a lecture on the chemical industry. The speaker was from CPCB. And every example he pulled out from the 3 decades of chemistry behind him made my mind resonate. Shook the volumes of this amazing science in me awake. He made me realize....I Love Chemistry....and everything related to it. The core of chemistry runs through me like blood! Thats when I actually submitted to the fact that I should do something about it.

The raw instances from the then sleep- inducing lectures in college, fill me now with inexplicable ecstasy. I cannot form the right words to explain the madness we enjoyed while shaking those conical flasks with weird smelling substances, which were sometimes corrosive or noxious or even explosive, or when we used to wait upon an unknown solid to melt with them filled in capillaries glued to thermometers dipped in conc. sulphuric acid, just to know its mysterious identity, or the lab day when we created the stinky "boot-polish" ingredient beta-naphthol and innocently decided to put it in our bags, and how the stink came home with us for months to come! Not to talk of the silly high we used to feel when we correctly detected all the ions in our salt mixtures, the childish delight that took us over looking at the brilliance of colors that we could produce with our very own hands! What to say of the iridescent blue copper sulphate-ammonia crystals we gave life to in our beakers?!

Then I figured that I still know the named reactions....the sleepless nights I spent in understanding the mechanims behind free radical rxns....sleeping with 2 volumes of Finar (The Bible of chemistry) and Solomon's on my bed side... How i thought i'd flunk the organic chemistry exams and made farras to sail over it...but never really needed them as I could always leave out the named rxns in choice!

But I remember them now...

I burn in hell when I hear of class mates who have stayed patient to discover the science of it! The Jealousy serves as another driving force..Now I wonder whether I have done enough justice to myself by depriving my self of such pleasures as those I got with chemistry. I wish I could do somthing to go back to it....