I think it’s only fair that I let everyone know what a transforming experience leaving home for the first time can be. There are people who will feel lost, uncertain, even start to regret their decisions. In a nutshell, there are people who will be homesick idiots.
Thankfully, I’m not one of them.
The last one month away from home has probably changed me more than the last 18 years of my life have. Views and opinions have changed, priorities have been thrown upside down and much experience has been gained. I guess it’s safe to say that the me writing this now has a changed perspective of the world than the me who wrote that last post before leaving.
Maybe it’s the different, faster pace of life in a metropolitan city, maybe it’s all the wonderful people I’ve met, or all the fun things we do together, but whatever it is, life sure looks a hell lot brighter now, despite that future still shrouded in murkiness lying ahead.
Despite the heat and lifeless feel of Chennai (which we the residents of good ol’ Trivandrum will hate) the place does have a certain charm that I suspect will slowly grow on me as time goes on(sort of the way Abhishek Bachchan feels about Delhi I guess :P). And it helps that our college campus is way better than most of the stuff you usually hear about from TN college returnees, because it actually has the whole multi cultural blending thing going. I never realized how much fun it is to meet people from different parts of the country (and the world, guys from China sure can play basketball!!).
With a batch that only allows a maximum strength of 25 people, teamwork assignments, professors who take us out for lunch, seniors who come to our class and hang out (in the good way) whenever they can, basketball with international students, samosas, golgappas and guitar lessons, what more could you want?
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That’s exactly what i was thinking when our tech fest ‘Aaruush”, came along. So, we the journalism department, armed with press ID cards were assigned the duty of covering the event for a special edition of the campus newspaper. Which meant we had free entry to paid and registered events including guest lectures and a late night ‘War of the DJ’s”.
I suppose the point I’m trying to put across in this otherwise rather pointless post is, despite all the doubts and uncertainties I faced about my higher education (refer earlier posts!), I’m glad I eventually made a decision I won’t ever regret. Finally rid of all the demons that haunted me during the last two years of high school, it’s that joyous feeling of being at peace with myself.
The only thing that comes close to expressing it is the line by Gandalf the Grey(or White, don’t remember who..) in The Lord of the Rings, ”The grey curtain of the world falls away, and all turns to silver glass..."
