Finally with the new year 2013, I just have my last four months in hostel. Time flies, yes surely, but I'm glad these three years are the most unforgettable years of my life.
Sitting in my hostel for the first time on the 31st night and writing a blog sounds bad, but it isn't. I have some crazy friends screaming around in here, mad at me as I sit in front of my laptop. But this was a blog I started in 2012, and I wanted it to be over before 2013. Now, getting back to my hostel, everyone is just ready to scream out the moment the clock strikes 12. All we want is an occasion to celebrate. We wait the same way when there is a birthday coming. At 12, we would start singing the birthday song and carry the cake, many times the special cake, to the special person(special cake at times, as being human we forget birthdays and have to prepare some last moment cakes). My favorite one being the hide and seek biscuit cake or the bread and jam cake!
Perhaps living in a hostel would help you learn hell load of things. Firstly, how to share your things. Things means anything and everything. Your mug which was gifted to you by your school friends, or the new jeans you got from the sale just last week. It wouldn't matter whether the shoes are your favorite, your friends can wear them whenever and wherever they want. But don't take this in the negative side, you yourself can choose from the variety offered, and sometimes not offered to you. Second, you learn to make your own decisions. Being at home would not even let you decide the dinner daily, but in hostel, there are far more important decisions you need to make. And trust me, you do manage to do well with the decisions. Next, you finally learn to differentiate between what is right and what is not. Yes sometimes you like the wrong things slightly more and find them attractive, but mistakes would just help you learn more.
Maggi! How did I forget Maggi! It is the most essential element of hostels. We want maggi for each and everything, whether we are watching a movie, studying, surfing net, gossiping or whatever. But there are many more things we cook. Well, Ill tell the truth, my roommate cooks. She can make rice, noodles, upma, soup and what not. Most of the times, there would be too many cooks and double the number of hoggers who would finish it off in just 2minutes. I have no idea how much I am going to miss all this when I am out of this heaven. You will find enemies helping each other and besties breaking each other's bones. This is exactly where the fun lies.
Hostel is a family in itself. You have a friend who would fight with you like your elder brother does, another would love to share all the secrets with you just like a sister. One would scold you whenever you are out partying with the wrong guys just like your dad would have and there is a friend who would make sure you are not left alone even for a minute when your sick, like a mother does. So basically, you do miss your family in hostel. At the same time, you are a member of another beautiful, but a younger family. Sadly I won't be able to write more as my friends have been waiting for me since midnight. They refuse to even enjoy without me as the new year begins.
So now, just a final thing, these three years of freedom and responsibility have made me what I am today. Now, no longer I'm afraid to step into the outside world, as I know I am ready and heading towards the right path!
Cheers!!!
And a happy new year!
Sitting in my hostel for the first time on the 31st night and writing a blog sounds bad, but it isn't. I have some crazy friends screaming around in here, mad at me as I sit in front of my laptop. But this was a blog I started in 2012, and I wanted it to be over before 2013. Now, getting back to my hostel, everyone is just ready to scream out the moment the clock strikes 12. All we want is an occasion to celebrate. We wait the same way when there is a birthday coming. At 12, we would start singing the birthday song and carry the cake, many times the special cake, to the special person(special cake at times, as being human we forget birthdays and have to prepare some last moment cakes). My favorite one being the hide and seek biscuit cake or the bread and jam cake!
Perhaps living in a hostel would help you learn hell load of things. Firstly, how to share your things. Things means anything and everything. Your mug which was gifted to you by your school friends, or the new jeans you got from the sale just last week. It wouldn't matter whether the shoes are your favorite, your friends can wear them whenever and wherever they want. But don't take this in the negative side, you yourself can choose from the variety offered, and sometimes not offered to you. Second, you learn to make your own decisions. Being at home would not even let you decide the dinner daily, but in hostel, there are far more important decisions you need to make. And trust me, you do manage to do well with the decisions. Next, you finally learn to differentiate between what is right and what is not. Yes sometimes you like the wrong things slightly more and find them attractive, but mistakes would just help you learn more.
Maggi! How did I forget Maggi! It is the most essential element of hostels. We want maggi for each and everything, whether we are watching a movie, studying, surfing net, gossiping or whatever. But there are many more things we cook. Well, Ill tell the truth, my roommate cooks. She can make rice, noodles, upma, soup and what not. Most of the times, there would be too many cooks and double the number of hoggers who would finish it off in just 2minutes. I have no idea how much I am going to miss all this when I am out of this heaven. You will find enemies helping each other and besties breaking each other's bones. This is exactly where the fun lies.
Hostel is a family in itself. You have a friend who would fight with you like your elder brother does, another would love to share all the secrets with you just like a sister. One would scold you whenever you are out partying with the wrong guys just like your dad would have and there is a friend who would make sure you are not left alone even for a minute when your sick, like a mother does. So basically, you do miss your family in hostel. At the same time, you are a member of another beautiful, but a younger family. Sadly I won't be able to write more as my friends have been waiting for me since midnight. They refuse to even enjoy without me as the new year begins.
So now, just a final thing, these three years of freedom and responsibility have made me what I am today. Now, no longer I'm afraid to step into the outside world, as I know I am ready and heading towards the right path!
Cheers!!!
And a happy new year!
