eUler's paTh...

The story states back to the first time we entered our university gate for our first examination with fears in our hearts and dreams in our eyes to score better and better in the examination which was our another chance to show our mental after our AIEEE rank and specially for students like me for whom it was the only chance since we already lost the first mental war. Hardly a few of the students were there who could manage to save themselves from the embarrassment at the hands of the seniors which most of us could not. This gave those students an edge over us but I hardly felt ashamed of it as I was with the majority. So, after losing in every part of the game being played so far there was a bit of an inferiority complex in me which I could nicely manage for I had praticed it with patience since time immemorial.

So, while revising all the stuff that we have studied the last night, and haven't even taken a bath to preserve it from being washed away. Here goes another famous belief of ours which stated that -

One should not take bath, however inclement the conditions be, in order to preserve the hard memorized words which stick to the body.

...continuing ....while revising all the stuff, and in order to take a path which was a little odd and so, less traversed too, we went on to a new path with out even having a rarest of the idea that this path can have a serious impact on our lives which we are gonna remember our whole life ...hopefully, if my short term memory loss doesn't convert into long term one.

After that examination was over and yet again I lost the battle, but there was relief in my mind as now I knew that I am not gonna win the battle. Anyways the story remains there only with me scoring considerably less than my friends but again and again traversing the same path in every exam until the path became more than just a place for loneliness - it now has become a tradition, the most important of all the handful of traditions being followed by a handful of us. We also gave it a name ...Euler's path...in the loving memory of the mathematician Euler whose evil works were troubling us to its most.

This path has now become a tradition for us and we follow it every time we go out for the examination, even as the path now costs us nearly a 100 yards of extra traversal, but we think that the tradition is worth it because it gives immense strength to us mentally, and we think that this brings us luck and we are in desperate need of it.

---Aniket Trivedi