HOSTEL :FRIEND OR FOE
Freedom, full on masti or a full stop on relaxed ambience. Smita came late to her hostel; the hostel warden was waiting for her like a cat who wants to eat the rat. When she came the warden shouted on her as a broadcast of non-stop block-buster movies on television. Generally, this is the portrayal of a hostel warden in students’ mind.
Children think hostel as a jail. Hostel is a place for them where they are subjected to strict rules and regulations. They cannot do the things according to their wishes. At hostel children can study well. Notorious children’s terror can end only when they will go to hostel; it’s a dated hierarchical thinking of most of the parents. But, in contrary to this many parents become afraid in sending their child to hostel. Their perception about hostel is totally different. In their views hostel is hell for their beloved child.
Everyday of hostel life is like a novel written for youth. It is a novel where they can find love, hatred, emotions, excitement, revenge, adventure and every spice of life. When you enter in a hostel, you have already lots of dream about it. Something matches with your dream and some do not matches. From day one the test for your adjustment capability starts. You have to adapt the new environment, the new room, the new bed, the new family. Here the race for the survival of the fittest starts. The one who can adjust in this novelty, hostel will become heaven for him otherwise it will remain a hell for them.
Many changes occur in you. You will not realize how the strange faces watching at you when first time you entered the hostel become your kin. Your life starts revolution of routine like earth’s revolution to sun. In morning, sitting in hostel’s mess for breakfast, while eating the breakfast’s parathas you miss your mom’s parathas. You remember those days when your mom used to chase you. She only wanted you to taste the food which she made exclusively for you. Now, you realize the importance of those moments which were only an ‘emotional-attayachaar’ you. In your hostel when your mother’s handmade eatables come it become a medicine for you.
Every night your parents call you. They want to know how you spent your whole day. Are you having any problem? Do you need more money in your account? Rain of questions suddenly falls on you. If you will ask for money you have to answer their obvious question that is previous month I sent less money than this month, where have you spent all those extra money? At that time you will pray the god to crack the earth so that you can hide your self beneath it. It becomes uneasy for you to inform your parents that you have spent their hardly earned money with your friends in a party.
In hostel you are unable to protect your self to the changing environment and lifestyle. Its first impact is on your personality and overall look. Now you can find collection of your choice in your ward-robe. You are independent to wear what you want. You want to become good looking. In night if somebody will peep in a room of girls’ hostel he will run back on his foot by saying ghost-ghost. Generally at night most of the girls used to paint their face with face-packs for making their beautiful face most beautiful. If someone will steal a look in a room of boys’ hostel he can catch those watching blue-films.
The word independent not only applies on your choice for outfits. You become emancipate in hostel. You are the owner of yourself. You are the decision maker of your future. Hostel is a platform where you meet different kind of people. Here you become gatekeeper for yourself. You have to decide in whose company you want to live.
You have to mesmerize your goals and try to live away from the distracting elements of your goal. Keep up in your mind the well said lines of Swami Vivekananda-‘Awake, Arise and Stop not till the Goal is reached.’
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