It was 3rd of September, when my life suddenly changed a bit, or perhaps the whole of it, when my dad left, leaving me alone in the hostel. Shocking, for a moment i felt and i said to myself “oh my god! What am I going to do now?”. Many questions started coming to my mind, some of which scared me, for I was thousands of kms away from my home, a place where i have been staying since my birth and along with my dearest ones. Then, one call from mom, and i started feeling stronger than the strongest of myself. Anyways, atleast for that moment, i had made myself strong enough to tolerate the toughest of conditions. But hold on!!!! i was so damn wrong about my definition of “toughest condition” for, the very next day, i experienced a thriller of my life, when i had an encounter with my some of my seniors.
“SENIORS”, a word that had been petrifying me since my admission into the college. I was getting used to the furniture in my room when suddenly someone knocked the door. Thinking that it would be my roommate, I opened the door. To my surprise, there were two bulky fellows standing in a strange manner, with their hands on each other’s shoulder and one of them holding a half litre bottle of a cold drink.. They came inside as if it was there room. One of them broke the ice saying “so, we are your seniors. Welcome to the hostel, dude.” No sooner did I make their good impression in my mind, than one of them started yelling at me “You idiot! Don’t you greet your seniors? Ok give your introduction.” I started shivering, remembering the previous day’s news about the death of a student during ragging. Somehow, without harming me, both of them went away and i felt so much relieved.
Days started passing gradually and i started getting used to the new environment. It was completely a new experience for me staying in the hostel and interacting with students from every nook and corner of our country having different cultural backgrounds. Hostel is just a small representation of our society, so we can find people with different attributes very easily. Some students want to be the leader, some like to stay aloof from everyone, Some are compulsive shopper and spendthrift while some don’t even take out their single penny. Some are superb sportsmen, some are nerds. Some like to socialize while some don’t. The other thing that i learnt in this hostel was to get accustomed to the new lifestyle which was completely different from the homely luxurious life. Sharing a room with someone, getting all of my work done myself, getting used to the “RESPECT THE SENIORS” environment etc were some of the difficult to do things initially but gradually everything became a habit.
As of now I've had a lot of experience of the hostel life and have learnt and still learning many new things in my life. I hope these days would be the most memorable and pleasing days of my life.