Hostel Life : My Early Experiences

Hello Everyone. Thank You for sending in positive reviews. Feels really nice to get good reviews when I'm starting out. Luckily i didn't get any negative reviews, but i welcome criticism too and I'll surely try to improve.


Before I start with the main topic, another brief introduction about me. I'm a shy person ( introvert might be more suitable ), I don't talk much, don't have too many friends and most of the time, I'm immersed in my own thoughts. I'm the kind of person who'd b shy to even say hi to someone if i meet them at the market ( so don't be offended by it :-P ). And also, I haven't lived in a hostel before, this is the first time I'm living away from my mom and dad and I'm really missing them.

The people who've never lived in a hostel before, don't be too excited, at least in the first few months you are really gonna miss your family. You may want to go away from them right now, but you'll realise later how important your family is.

"You realise something's value only after it's gone."

You will have to wash and dry and even fold your clothes! ( Laundry cannot always be trusted). You will have to wake up on time yourself, (koi aake pyar se nhi uthane wala :-P). You will have to clean the mess you create, make your bed, remember to carry your towel to the bathroom ( My friend forgot his towel :-P His roomie finally gave him the towel, after making him shout in the bathroom that he loves XYZ (some girl) ) and above all adjust to the mess food !!

And once you get used to these, you'll slowly but surely start enjoying your hostel life. You will make new friends ( and hopefully good ones ). You will be beaten up at 12 in the night on your birthday, and if you are lucky your friends might even give you a gift :-P. You will be eating Maggi and drinking coffee at crazy hours, playing loud music in your room ( till the warden gets to know about it ), making fun of each other to no end (which leads to fights sometimes), playing pranks on each other ( I have been locked in the room quite a few times. For some people its worse, their roomies lock them out of the room when they go to bathe. Imagine roaming around in a towel while its getting late for class ). Your parents won't be there to shout at you for watching too many movies. You and only you, will be in control of your life (isn't that what you always wanted? ).

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And when something goes wrong, your friends will support you. And that's when you will realize that you miss your family, that you would do anything just to go back to your mom. No matter how good your friends are, you will miss your parents, and your brothers and sisters. You will want to go back home and just switch on the ac and sleep with absolutely no worries. And thus your life will be, switching like AC ( Alternating Current ) between fun and happiness on one end and hardships at the other end.

Everyone is going to do some or the other crazy stuff ( even the nerds... according to our definition, studying for long periods of time is crazy stuff too :-P). Everyone will have a story to tell. Life as you know it will change. Your friends will be the biggest part of your life ( you are living with them 24 hours a day, cant get any bigger than that ). And you will have the freedom to do what you want. Just remember :

"With great freedom, comes greater responsibility"

Edited and Adapted from the spiderman movie.