I seriously could not find anything to start with, other than my personal experience of how I came to front this world. From my point of view, some people would rather find it too philosophical but the truth is that the actual perspective of this world comes into picture exactly from the mind of a newly born adult. I admit that , as for now, it has been seven months since I joined this university, a step towards building my professional front but the true essence of life was sensed in the first few months.
To start with, there is this whole new feeling of being all by yourself, especially when your parents have always been so protective towards you. At first you are surrounded by this whole bunch of new faces with their own outlook towards life and apparently an aura of pride of being admitted to an renowned institute. Unfortunately, you even come across those unhappy pupils, shaking their heads in repenting modes for not making it to the college of their dreams. Yes, how could I forget that day when I first met my professors, the air about them that made me a bit nervous when they were around. I remember how I had always dreamt of living a life, with a good group to exchange ideas with while we strolled around the streets in our pajamas, singing to the newly released songs we had heard walking by the nearby located coffee shop. Aah! I know this wasn't too much to ask for from life but then the mere pleasure of living the dream filled my heart with joy.
I still remember that it hardly took me a day to make acquaintances whom I would greet on the way from my room to the hostel mess and back. I was glad to meet people the very first day of my arrival, who had opted for the same course and we didn't hesitate in asking for each other's company when required. Nevertheless, days passed by and gradually the tears of separation from the parents dried. I didn't actually realise when I had come so close to a few people that the whole day long I would be busy chatting with them and all I could talk to my parents, other than my academics, were these friends of mine. Parents are the happiest people on Earth when they find out about your secure company in the new world you have recently become a part of. I still remember my elders warning me about the destructive world waiting out there for me. I had heard from them that before I can sense I would be all burdened with responsibilities I had never asked for but then that is not something you ask for! However, now that I am all by myself, I realise now that there is much beyond what the professors would teach you and that it would not be long that life would give you setbacks at some point of time that it would turn your world upside down before you can realise that everything happened for the better.
To start with, there is this whole new feeling of being all by yourself, especially when your parents have always been so protective towards you. At first you are surrounded by this whole bunch of new faces with their own outlook towards life and apparently an aura of pride of being admitted to an renowned institute. Unfortunately, you even come across those unhappy pupils, shaking their heads in repenting modes for not making it to the college of their dreams. Yes, how could I forget that day when I first met my professors, the air about them that made me a bit nervous when they were around. I remember how I had always dreamt of living a life, with a good group to exchange ideas with while we strolled around the streets in our pajamas, singing to the newly released songs we had heard walking by the nearby located coffee shop. Aah! I know this wasn't too much to ask for from life but then the mere pleasure of living the dream filled my heart with joy.
I still remember that it hardly took me a day to make acquaintances whom I would greet on the way from my room to the hostel mess and back. I was glad to meet people the very first day of my arrival, who had opted for the same course and we didn't hesitate in asking for each other's company when required. Nevertheless, days passed by and gradually the tears of separation from the parents dried. I didn't actually realise when I had come so close to a few people that the whole day long I would be busy chatting with them and all I could talk to my parents, other than my academics, were these friends of mine. Parents are the happiest people on Earth when they find out about your secure company in the new world you have recently become a part of. I still remember my elders warning me about the destructive world waiting out there for me. I had heard from them that before I can sense I would be all burdened with responsibilities I had never asked for but then that is not something you ask for! However, now that I am all by myself, I realise now that there is much beyond what the professors would teach you and that it would not be long that life would give you setbacks at some point of time that it would turn your world upside down before you can realise that everything happened for the better.
A good beginning!!!
ReplyDeleteNicely expressed!!! Kudos! Life in college is, indeed, a new beginning! For you it turned out to be in the form of new friends, an independent and fun surrounding, the enthusiasm of meeting your new professors and learning at college. Whoever we are, wherever we have come from, however misfit we may be; there is always something best kept for us!
ReplyDeleteI realized this in college, that beyond the boundaries of success and failure, beyond appraisal and criticism... there always is a higher purpose in life - to learn and to live each day to the fullest; and yes, they are those seeds that we sow today, that we reap tomorrow. :)