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Hostlers: Today's Nomads
Hostel (if you have got the chance to experience it ever) is the most amazing part of one’s college life! Even after decades, the memories remain as fresh as of yesterday! Those late night gossips, playing cards till morning, going to college without sleeping even a second in last night, watching random movies whole night, bitching about the other college fellows and trying your hand at cooking late night, making Maggie or tea or just ending up with some unimaginable disastrous results!
Students from different and distinct parts of the country come together in a hostel like a family. Helping each other in times of need, sharing your culture and gathering knowledge about other person’s whereabouts, everything is so interesting! Hostels depict a mini-world, where all cultures, come together and share space! Hostel life teaches us something that is very necessary to have in us: ESSENCE OF ADJUSTMENT!
Many students before joining hostel are great tantrum throwers at their homes; who don’t know how to adjust with their younger siblings. Some just don’t care about their belongings, and some are so careless about their own stuff that it keeps on wandering here and there while in home!
But hostel changes EVERYONE! Though a little, or more, every student experiences some changes in his/her personality! When it comes to living alone, away from home, without parents or guardians, living with someone, and sharing a room, adjusting to the limit, all the brats transform into sweethearts! When they are exposed to REALITY of life, they realize the value of everything!
Many of my friends are living in a hostel, and some of them are loving it now…but one thing for sure, it has changed them a lot! Earlier some used to fight and throw tantrums for buying new phone or new dresses, but now, believe me; it doesn’t matters to them whether they’re carrying a Blackberry or a Samsung or a Nokia 1100! It doesn’t matters if they’re wearing Gucci or some Indian brand! It REALLY DOESN’T MATTERS ANYMORE!
I’m happy that I have clothes to wear, good food to eat, good facilities. I feel blessed, especially when I see ragged and naked children begging on traffic signals, I actually feel blessed! Living in a hostel exposes you to REALITY big time! Living without family is no doubt very tough. Some of my friends always thought they’ll make friends; life would be fun, living on your own, cleaning up your own room, no servants, no mom screaming for breakfast in morning! But now, whenever I ask them about their hostel life, they just say one thing: I miss school days more! I miss it when mom used to wake me up every morning; when dad used to scold me when every time I was late for school. I miss it when I fought with my brother for a piece of sandwich.
In hostels, they have no-one to wake them up and scream at the top of their head to make them get up. Nobody cares if they’re sleeping and missing college, or even dead! No-one scolds them if they’re late at college! Even their family members have changed since they’ve joined hostel, they’ve started LOVING them MORE! It’s not that they are not used to the love, but it’s that, sometimes, the family just becomes diabetically sweet and shower upon love, that they are not used to receive! DAMN! Some say they want their old folks back, scolding and screaming at them all the time; they want their old siblings back, who used to throw them out of the house, and not welcome them home with teary eyes every month!
A hostler change into a TRAVELER, a NOMAD rather, who roams from home to hostel, then again home at weekends or month ends or semester ends! A person always comes across REALITY or what you may say “REAL WORLD” once in his life…where all his friends may leave him…he may be left alone…and there maybe no one for his support. That is the time one realizes the importance of a FAMILY! Some people, who are always by your side no matter how far you are; the people who always make you feel special and important, no matter how less you visit them. So, always take care of your family…sort out disputes, make your parents feel special, take out some time for them, tell them you love them, and show them you care for them. God bless your parents…God bless you! One Life!
Students from different and distinct parts of the country come together in a hostel like a family. Helping each other in times of need, sharing your culture and gathering knowledge about other person’s whereabouts, everything is so interesting! Hostels depict a mini-world, where all cultures, come together and share space! Hostel life teaches us something that is very necessary to have in us: ESSENCE OF ADJUSTMENT!
Many students before joining hostel are great tantrum throwers at their homes; who don’t know how to adjust with their younger siblings. Some just don’t care about their belongings, and some are so careless about their own stuff that it keeps on wandering here and there while in home!
But hostel changes EVERYONE! Though a little, or more, every student experiences some changes in his/her personality! When it comes to living alone, away from home, without parents or guardians, living with someone, and sharing a room, adjusting to the limit, all the brats transform into sweethearts! When they are exposed to REALITY of life, they realize the value of everything!
Many of my friends are living in a hostel, and some of them are loving it now…but one thing for sure, it has changed them a lot! Earlier some used to fight and throw tantrums for buying new phone or new dresses, but now, believe me; it doesn’t matters to them whether they’re carrying a Blackberry or a Samsung or a Nokia 1100! It doesn’t matters if they’re wearing Gucci or some Indian brand! It REALLY DOESN’T MATTERS ANYMORE!
I’m happy that I have clothes to wear, good food to eat, good facilities. I feel blessed, especially when I see ragged and naked children begging on traffic signals, I actually feel blessed! Living in a hostel exposes you to REALITY big time! Living without family is no doubt very tough. Some of my friends always thought they’ll make friends; life would be fun, living on your own, cleaning up your own room, no servants, no mom screaming for breakfast in morning! But now, whenever I ask them about their hostel life, they just say one thing: I miss school days more! I miss it when mom used to wake me up every morning; when dad used to scold me when every time I was late for school. I miss it when I fought with my brother for a piece of sandwich.
In hostels, they have no-one to wake them up and scream at the top of their head to make them get up. Nobody cares if they’re sleeping and missing college, or even dead! No-one scolds them if they’re late at college! Even their family members have changed since they’ve joined hostel, they’ve started LOVING them MORE! It’s not that they are not used to the love, but it’s that, sometimes, the family just becomes diabetically sweet and shower upon love, that they are not used to receive! DAMN! Some say they want their old folks back, scolding and screaming at them all the time; they want their old siblings back, who used to throw them out of the house, and not welcome them home with teary eyes every month!
A hostler change into a TRAVELER, a NOMAD rather, who roams from home to hostel, then again home at weekends or month ends or semester ends! A person always comes across REALITY or what you may say “REAL WORLD” once in his life…where all his friends may leave him…he may be left alone…and there maybe no one for his support. That is the time one realizes the importance of a FAMILY! Some people, who are always by your side no matter how far you are; the people who always make you feel special and important, no matter how less you visit them. So, always take care of your family…sort out disputes, make your parents feel special, take out some time for them, tell them you love them, and show them you care for them. God bless your parents…God bless you! One Life!
