Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missin' home...
What Passenger preaches through his song 'let her go' is more than love. It is philosophy. It is the lesson that you need to learn. The lesson that states that your life is moving on, you should be able to understand it, appreciate it, and learn from it. Back to the song, he says it's about the person you love, may be now, it's about the life you live.
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missin' home...
What Passenger preaches through his song 'let her go' is more than love. It is philosophy. It is the lesson that you need to learn. The lesson that states that your life is moving on, you should be able to understand it, appreciate it, and learn from it. Back to the song, he says it's about the person you love, may be now, it's about the life you live.
Of such lessons I've learnt and my personal experiences, I shall not speak. The reason about such reluctance is the length and boredom to the reader concerned. But, I shall emphasise on how a college, with the life of a hosteller is different from a school life.
People of impeccable intellect are collected from around the country and poured into the institution. Especially in MANIT, the diversity is huge, and all such souls with flying dreams are poured into the hostel. Right from where you place your mobile in the room to the care you take about your keys is now dependent on what to others think about it. The first semester teaches you mostly this, how to adjust. Adjusting to situations, to people around you is something everyone learns. Every time this circle of influential People - classmates, roommates and concerned friends change, you nurture your adjustment to a better level. As a part of the process, by the end of graduation, you shall learn to adjust much better than 90% of your age who live in a room with a separate door. God bless such wisdom upon them.
The formalities to be completed before, during and after the course are way too high. One learns how to use a bank account, how to deal with the babus, alongside venting their frustration every single time they come across such situation. However, in due course of time, we get accustomed to the queues and meaningless procedures, yes, we are being prepared for the nominal governance of the nation and its procedures, where half of them shall forever remain worthless. Accompanying are the capabilities of visiting police stations and courts, nursing at hospitals and booking tickets through IRCTC.
Ragging is inevitable in colleges like MANIT. It is true that it is unhealthy and demoralising. But, given the long-time effects, it teaches you things that you would never learn. Guts get planted deep in you, you learn to face frustration that has got nothing to do with you, and to clearly understand who would stand by you in tough times and not. This ability to distinguish would have otherwise eaten 2 to 3 years of your precious college life alone. You also widen your circles and meet more people, understand what causes frustration and eventually keeping yourself away from it, but yes, ragging despite all this, isn't good. It’s cool... Who cares??
The tough times are in almost every way different, from when you are home. It would be very evident in the one call you get from your parents when you say "everything is fine" when it won't be. Every time you do that, during ragging, illness, accidents or emotional breakdown you are stepping a stone higher towards the real world. You are being independent and mature involuntarily. You are witnessing friends who are worth siblings, who are supporting you to an extent that you can handle things yourself. Such reasons are innumerable and such independence, immeasurable. You only see through it when it's all over, that you have learnt to be tough, to be better and to be clear about yourself.
In addition to this are joys and minor capabilities recorded, a few of them being: your irregular sleep cycles, malnutrition diets, laughing over your own problems, enticing humour over you, learning to overcome almost every physiological situations, the art of cooking and the skill of cooking things up, learning to waste time, learning to waste time in your interests, learning what interests you, pursuing things of your choice, detachments and attachments, night outs and day sleeps, bathing in weeks and staring at stars, listening to stories, fictitious or not, appreciating and firing back. Of all that you learn, one thing is sure, you are learning life.
Accredited to 'happy days' are words that summarize all I said in a pair of lines, “you don't come to college to achieve life. You come to develop the skills and attitude to learn to achieve it."
P. S. I am delighted I wrote so much without my personal life or tears. A blog post would be too small to write the things that aren't either generalized or are personal. Everyone would have their dose of farewell soon after the 6th of May. :-P get ready with your tissues.
People of impeccable intellect are collected from around the country and poured into the institution. Especially in MANIT, the diversity is huge, and all such souls with flying dreams are poured into the hostel. Right from where you place your mobile in the room to the care you take about your keys is now dependent on what to others think about it. The first semester teaches you mostly this, how to adjust. Adjusting to situations, to people around you is something everyone learns. Every time this circle of influential People - classmates, roommates and concerned friends change, you nurture your adjustment to a better level. As a part of the process, by the end of graduation, you shall learn to adjust much better than 90% of your age who live in a room with a separate door. God bless such wisdom upon them.
The formalities to be completed before, during and after the course are way too high. One learns how to use a bank account, how to deal with the babus, alongside venting their frustration every single time they come across such situation. However, in due course of time, we get accustomed to the queues and meaningless procedures, yes, we are being prepared for the nominal governance of the nation and its procedures, where half of them shall forever remain worthless. Accompanying are the capabilities of visiting police stations and courts, nursing at hospitals and booking tickets through IRCTC.
Ragging is inevitable in colleges like MANIT. It is true that it is unhealthy and demoralising. But, given the long-time effects, it teaches you things that you would never learn. Guts get planted deep in you, you learn to face frustration that has got nothing to do with you, and to clearly understand who would stand by you in tough times and not. This ability to distinguish would have otherwise eaten 2 to 3 years of your precious college life alone. You also widen your circles and meet more people, understand what causes frustration and eventually keeping yourself away from it, but yes, ragging despite all this, isn't good. It’s cool... Who cares??
The tough times are in almost every way different, from when you are home. It would be very evident in the one call you get from your parents when you say "everything is fine" when it won't be. Every time you do that, during ragging, illness, accidents or emotional breakdown you are stepping a stone higher towards the real world. You are being independent and mature involuntarily. You are witnessing friends who are worth siblings, who are supporting you to an extent that you can handle things yourself. Such reasons are innumerable and such independence, immeasurable. You only see through it when it's all over, that you have learnt to be tough, to be better and to be clear about yourself.
In addition to this are joys and minor capabilities recorded, a few of them being: your irregular sleep cycles, malnutrition diets, laughing over your own problems, enticing humour over you, learning to overcome almost every physiological situations, the art of cooking and the skill of cooking things up, learning to waste time, learning to waste time in your interests, learning what interests you, pursuing things of your choice, detachments and attachments, night outs and day sleeps, bathing in weeks and staring at stars, listening to stories, fictitious or not, appreciating and firing back. Of all that you learn, one thing is sure, you are learning life.
Accredited to 'happy days' are words that summarize all I said in a pair of lines, “you don't come to college to achieve life. You come to develop the skills and attitude to learn to achieve it."
P. S. I am delighted I wrote so much without my personal life or tears. A blog post would be too small to write the things that aren't either generalized or are personal. Everyone would have their dose of farewell soon after the 6th of May. :-P get ready with your tissues.