Hostel Life

Many of my friends in college have been hostelites and always have praised it though they might not have proper food at all, strict timings and many things like that. But they always say that hostel life is one to be experience than told about.

Hostel life for them means, realizing the importance of homemade food, getting back memories of their tantrums regarding stuff back home, realizing the importance of parents but for them it also means being able to explore new things, difficulties in life, discovering their capabilities and capacity to do stuff. Being a hostelite means being resourceful, discovering your limits and ways to handle it, capacity to be able to take pangas ;). Doing impromptu things and enjoy college life to the fullest.

Hostel life to them meant seeing the true side of living life away from home, with less money or no money but still be able to do things without hesitation. Basically if I see the way they tell me about it, it is basically being unafraid and being able to express your thoughts, your passion and the fun side of life. I guess hostel life means having fun, taking pangas and getting away with it, in short be happy in an Academic year.

I used to think hostelites means people who are spoilt by character because they are doing things that their parents would never allow them to, undisciplined because they are the ones who are always ready to break any kind of rules set for them though they had strict rules at the hostel. Hostelites meant people who just find a reason to take pangas and spoil the names of their parents. But it is not at all so when I met people (my colleagues) most of them who have been hostelites at one or the other part of their life, they showed the real picture of what hostel life is all about.

Then on, I realized that hostel life meant having fun and do anything that would keep you happy regardless of the consequences. Hostel life meant see what life has planned for you when you have no money even by the second week of the month but still be able to enjoy with pennies in your pocket. Hostel life means do impromptu things in the middle of the night and you will find that city is still awake and secure enough to let a woman walk around at that point of time.

Hostel life kind of’ makes you realize that this is how we have to tackle other difficulties that come in our life, it teaches you to be happy with or without money, it adds a value to life and gives the capacity t enjoy life to the fullest without the concept of money around. It contradicts the fact that more money means more happiness which is not at all true, having more money does not mean that the person is happier than you are or having fun in their lives. Hostel life teaches you that. Because hostel life teaches you that happiness is in everything around you, you just need to find a way to discover it that’s all.

Luv Sadhana.