ZINDAGI ROCKZ!!!

It’s been a really long time since I wrote a blog. All my friends got exhausted asking me to write a new post and I too lost interest in it. Then I joined college and made new friends. They read my blog and thus after a large span of time I started getting comments on my blog. This suddenly renewed my writing interest and I wanted to write a new entry. But what should I write about?? I have been sitting in front of my laptop for over an hour and I still cant get a good topic. What has happened to me?? Words usually flow out once I touch the keyboard. My friend suggested that I write about college life. So lemme try doing that…

I have entered a totally different stage in my life. I’m staying away from home for the first time. For a mother’s pet like me this was something really difficult. I felt as if I was alone in a strange land. Hostel life seemed so weird and I kept wondering how I would be able to live among such total strangers. College was another eerie place. I liked my class the very first day itself but since I need a lot of time to mingle with people I was totally silent there initially. Then there was this perpetual fear of our seniors. We were given a huge lecture on “How to behave towards seniors” in our hostel. I was really in an extremely confused state for a long time.

Then I started being close with my hostel mates. We used to sit together and chat till midnight. I started loving my hostel. I became so comfortable with them that I felt as if I was back home. Hostel life became so much fun… sharing jokes.. Teasing each other.. Listening to music… dancing… playing.. The list goes on and on…. Homesickness seemed to have disappeared almost completely… Washing our own clothes and adjusting to the weird food was really difficult. During every meal we spent half the time trying to find out what exactly we were eating(everything tastes and looks so different and horrible from what we get at home). Washing clothes was like a ritual. We are totally devoted to it and do it daily coz if we miss one day we will have a huger pile the next day(and no mom to do it for us). All of us are from different places so even though we speak Malayalam every has a different way of speaking. Initially none of us understood each other but now we all have acquired the art of decoding the various dialects. All this became part of the fun. We became totally bonded…. We became a family…

College was still a little weird. Some of the classes were so boring that I was perpetually yawning. In the first year we have to learn so many unrelated subjects that it drives me crazy. I came to learn computer science then why the hell do I have to learn mechanics and graphics and gosh!! We even have environmental studies!!!!! Then we have a really dumb uniform. The salwar is white which makes it extremely difficult to wash. The shawl has to be worn in a ’V’ shape which totally irritates me (Imagine having a ’V’ on your chest the whole day). I hated wearing our crazy uniform and going to college everyday. I also got caught a lot of times by my seniors which killed my spirit.

But then slowly I started knowing more people… discovering new friends… and became really close with some… Then even the most boring class became fun…. Commenting…. Scribbling notes… talking nonsense… playing silly games… I started truly enjoying college life… Now I simply love going to college (I still hate our uniform)… There are still lots of students I need to know…need to be friends with… each day I discover someone new.. Each day I grow fonder of my class… each day I become closer to my college..

At the end of it all friendship is what brings true happiness. Even if we join the most popular college… even if we live in the most expensive hostel… even if we have everything our heart desires… we will never be truly contented without friends…. I am very close with my family and it broke my heart staying away from them… But now I have adjusted so well to my new circumstances that I have surprised myself…. I feel more mature and grown up… Once you get friends any place becomes heaven…. Life rockzzz!!!!

PS: Special thanx to my friends for inspriring me to write again... but this seems to be a really short blogpost... will write a more detailed one later...