A week in hostel is worth two at home, these priceless
hostel days are starting to get numbered for me, with only two years
left(hopefully) until I step out of my 'hallowed' college. There is a sense of
freedom here, a sort of serenity amid all the noises and hoopla, and I guess
hostels are the only place where you find such juxtapositions. The sickening
vacations couldn’t end soon enough, as I felt frustrated by my inactivity at
home, crave for returning back to my hostel soon became an obsession. Ecstasy,
so aptly is my hostel named that I have never felt more ecstatic at any other
place than this. It is the epitome of semi-luxurious entertainment and fun, a
place where it’s only you and your friends alone, drenched and sunk in all
sorts of alcoholic, non-alcoholic beverages; a place where one never sees the
sun rising, a place where we all become doctors of some kind who knows all
about lungs and livers, a place where cigarette smoke is the staple food,
a place where feasts always start with a sniff of the ‘holy’ weed. A nightmare
of a place for the good guys, but life in hostel is an experience to savor, you
can never have that in any other place in the world; in simple words it is an
enlightening experience.
Not every hostel in this big world is the same, and I won’t
suggest using my description as a stereotype for hostel life, and it is at your
own peril if you choose to do so. The first few days after vacations are the
real deal, it’s the time when you try to get used to the pace, try to
understand and study your surroundings all over again. New semester meant that
I would be shifting from my earlier room and by the grace of the Almighty, I
landed in a place which I so badly wanted, a single-seater room. After two
long, tedious years of toiling with roommates, I now find myself in new
territory, and what better place than a room of my own, however small it may
be. And thus starts another phase of my sojourn in Silchar, and this time I
hope to have something better to show at the end. Working hard is the keyword
here, and we all know very well how antonymous the word is with an engineering
student. But still, it’s a new beginning, the time for
renewed hope and expectation and hopefully not another false dawn.
Blogger has provided me an awesome platform to pen down my views on subjects and topics I like, it has been a great journey till now, and I just can't get enough of it. As I have been offered the job of EPL blogger at sportzwiki.com, my posts here will be sporadic from now onward. I wish the earth took more time to rotate, because for me now, time is the most important commodity.