The silent sunday morning of the 8th of January 2012 this year saw us turning three years young. With slow but sure steps, we tried to trace our journey of three years through a small get together which saw many of the participants involved with the progress of Zav, in attendance.
Starting off with a small invocation song to pep up our spirits, we were all re-introduced to Zav’s Philosophy by Saranya.It provoked all of us to question our ideas of Zav and the work that we were associated with. Aman’s speech about his realizations and experiences with starting off with Zav moved many in the audience and his tangible and raw emotional connection with Zav was evident in his talk. The passion and commitment into driving himself and the other Zavians into taking their time off their schedules and imprinting the idea of putting empathy over charity or sympathy into everyone’s mind was the very epitome of his speech. The event then saw many volunteers coming upto the dias and talking about their experiences with Zav.
Names would be a big list to mention but the emotions and Passions that oozed out of every experience echoed similar thoughts. A varied perspective of the work that every Zavian shared was an experience in itself and had the audience relating to the speaker, even when they had very little personal introductions.
All in all, the 3rd year Anniversary laid a firm foundation to the aspirations of Zav and its 2020 dream. It saw the meeting of ideas and perspectives and the zest of the young at heart. With dreamy eyes we bid adieu to the day for what it stands, with promises to live up to and lives to touch.
Ambika Patil
