So, after spending 3
months. That is from July 10th to September 22nd, in a
new place, new circumferent, with new people and places, perks of being a
“first year college student”, giving a class test half prepared and scoring a
decent marks then, excited and appall with
the hostel fresher’s thrown by our seniors,
tolerating the indirect ragging ’ in the hostel, fighting over “rice’
every night in the mess and many madness with my dorm-mates and college friends, I got a vacation of 45 days, which
all my school friends reading in other
colleges envy of.
23rd September to 9th November:-
I wanted to utilize this entire vacation so much that, my
mom actually booked my train tickets on 9th night so that I reach on
10th morning and go to college in the same day (How hectic that will be). Not eating “the hard rock tofu” in the hostel
mess but gulp mouth watering dishes prepared by my mom dearest on the last day
of my vacation.
45 DAYS LONG VACATION,
I will do this, I will browse that, try
a new cuisine, do something dissimilar, read for the college Midterms
seriously, play with my sister, rag her
as much as, try out some photography skills, read books, plan about my travelling, which dress to buy, which new brand to try, talk endlessly with my dad on several things, gather
knowledge from here and there, telling stories to my mom about everything, the
hot guy I saw at Quest Mall on a Sunday evening while eating “Dosa” with my Friend, about how much I miss home, watching news, visiting my school as a proud
Alumni, meeting school friends and so much more, I told myself while packing up my bags in the hostel before
coming home.
BUT,
the reality was something VERY DIFFERENT, very distinct to what I told myself while packing up my bags on 21st September, 2014. Definitely, the above things happened, but this time, the way was contrary with before.
the reality was something VERY DIFFERENT, very distinct to what I told myself while packing up my bags on 21st September, 2014. Definitely, the above things happened, but this time, the way was contrary with before.
HOW?
Well, coming home from a place called hostel, was very different.
The PC that I missed for 2 months looked like a bliss, the bed in which I slept felt like a “king’s bed” and the food that I ate can’t be expressed. Everything was so different. Or, I looked at everything differently after coming from hostel. Rourkela felt so much distinct with that of Kolkata. I had to not wait for 10 minutes to cross a road like I do while in the 7point crossing at Kolkata.
I had visited Kolkata several times before and now when I am a resident there, I am quite familiar with roads and the places. So I don’t face so much of problem while moving out, but the place where I had spent 10 years of my life looked new to me. Or may be, I looked at it differently. Rourkela!
Well, coming home from a place called hostel, was very different.
The PC that I missed for 2 months looked like a bliss, the bed in which I slept felt like a “king’s bed” and the food that I ate can’t be expressed. Everything was so different. Or, I looked at everything differently after coming from hostel. Rourkela felt so much distinct with that of Kolkata. I had to not wait for 10 minutes to cross a road like I do while in the 7point crossing at Kolkata.
I had visited Kolkata several times before and now when I am a resident there, I am quite familiar with roads and the places. So I don’t face so much of problem while moving out, but the place where I had spent 10 years of my life looked new to me. Or may be, I looked at it differently. Rourkela!
The first few days went on by meeting old friends, hanging
out here and there, refining good old memoires, talking about our new college
life, friends, and the guy/girl we fell for during the first month of the college,
and talking with a friend insight outskated over a locked gate was also a good
vacation store. Also the Puja week made
me visit my Native place, where I was hooked with my phone and Laptop 24*7,
because, I had basically nothing to do. NOTHING actually. Oh yes, visiting the Durga Puja
pandals too.
Then came the, 10AM TO 10PM schedule doing absolutely nothing and surfing so much, that I actually finished my 1GB in just 8 days.
Then came the, 10AM TO 10PM schedule doing absolutely nothing and surfing so much, that I actually finished my 1GB in just 8 days.
Well, the first point here is, I did not study a single page
of my course knowing the fact that I will have to give a Midterm after going back to college and that it was very essential
as per our seniors. I decided to take it casually. And ended up just reading
about “Marxism” and knowing his theories more.
Getting up at quarter to 10, doing the daily chores and hooked into the internet, became an integral part of this vacation. Potpourri of thought, over thing about the future, career and other issues daunted me as much as they can.
But then, just when my vacation were coming to an end, hardly any days left, I decided to surf more and more, know about things, going beyond my course studies, surfing something different from the earlier.
Sitting idle for the entire day was a big pain, but sometimes when you are idle and have so many things to do, but do nothing, the debate in your heart and mind begins, you think about stuffs you don’t want too, you look at pictures, you tried hard to delete but ended up putting in the recycle bin instead of deleting it permanently from your Laptop. “What to do next became a serious question on your mind”, fighting all the emotional battles become a herculean task and then getting over unpleasant thoughts gives a relief.
So, this vacation was something very different from the school vacations. The way of spending it was totally opposite if compared with school holidays. Thinking plays a major role and you get to know that you have actually become more matured then yesterday, you have grown up, you have become responsible of your own life and the excitement to do this and that is a halfway path to catch your dreams.
People say being idle is bad, it makes you lazy, chafes you, over thinking plays an active role while being idle, but sometimes being idle is the only way to know more about yourself, your life, career, issues that matter, setting u p the right priority and discover things.
Getting up at quarter to 10, doing the daily chores and hooked into the internet, became an integral part of this vacation. Potpourri of thought, over thing about the future, career and other issues daunted me as much as they can.
But then, just when my vacation were coming to an end, hardly any days left, I decided to surf more and more, know about things, going beyond my course studies, surfing something different from the earlier.
Sitting idle for the entire day was a big pain, but sometimes when you are idle and have so many things to do, but do nothing, the debate in your heart and mind begins, you think about stuffs you don’t want too, you look at pictures, you tried hard to delete but ended up putting in the recycle bin instead of deleting it permanently from your Laptop. “What to do next became a serious question on your mind”, fighting all the emotional battles become a herculean task and then getting over unpleasant thoughts gives a relief.
So, this vacation was something very different from the school vacations. The way of spending it was totally opposite if compared with school holidays. Thinking plays a major role and you get to know that you have actually become more matured then yesterday, you have grown up, you have become responsible of your own life and the excitement to do this and that is a halfway path to catch your dreams.
People say being idle is bad, it makes you lazy, chafes you, over thinking plays an active role while being idle, but sometimes being idle is the only way to know more about yourself, your life, career, issues that matter, setting u p the right priority and discover things.
Take a vacation, where you can be idle. Believe me, sometimes it will work as wonders.
Living in a hostel is really nice way of getting a little sneak-peek into the beginning of how extremely troublesome and fun one's life can get...
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