You have a good life at home…a good life in school…good friends…good boyfriend/girlfriend. Life’s good and you couldn’t have asked for better. And then that fateful day comes when you leave school and it hits you, that everything in your life is heading towards a change.
You feel like you’re isolated in this new city and college until you make a startling revelation. Your batchmates feel the same way as you do! It’s the same back in your hostels or flats. Your roommates are strangers to you but then they too are new to this strange place and the fact that you live together means that you make efforts to get to know them better.
Days go by and these strangers become acquaintances, and then friends. You go through the headaches of assignments, deadlines, exams, faasos, disgusting mess food, TNGs, faculty that drives you up the wall, fights and make-ups, couples and break-ups, but they don’t really sour everything for you.
Then the end of the first semester ends and everyone’s excited to go back home! You give hugs and kisses to your parents and siblings and say that nothing is as good as being back home. Then a week or so later, you realize that you’re feeling a little off. There is just something missing. You go on facebook and then you realize what that ‘something’ was. You miss your life back in college.That’s when everybody realizes that home is no longer home. At least not completely. For now each person has two homes, one back at home and the other back in pune. And we also realize that through all the love and hatred shared in college, we have discovered our second family – our friends – that we just stand being apart from and yet take for granted once they’re around. Ironic isn’t it.
And yet, no one admits it.
ReplyDeleteYou're an idiot to say so.
Join the gang, with me.
:)