Being eighteen and having no boundaries happens to be very rare in our country, being answerable to no one but yourself, cooking your own food not only gives you a good career option but teaches you to survive on anything, washing your own clothes well that's not a pretty picture, living on your own is no cake walk but It's a wonderful teacher.
Still remember being the fat introvert kid with no clue how to handle himself going to the college, now at least have done good work on the weight loss. Three years have passed and not only I have aged physically but with the mindset, I have adapted myself into, I have surely evolved as a person.
These years taught me the value of money, adjusting in the slender allowance, making the most of it, saving it for the needs because our wants die when having a pizza once a blue moon becomes a luxury.
Doing odd part time jobs to make it up to the month you surely gain more than just your pocket money, you get to know whether you have it within what it takes to live and not just exist.
You are responsible for everything related to you, paying rent, making your own food, doing the dishes, washing all those clothes on the chair even cleaning the washroom and many other small responsibilities one face every day, makes you the perfect maid your mother was looking for, well a couple of career options have been discussed whether you graduate or don't, you are surely placed.
Living rather surviving in a city where you don't even share the common language could be tedious, well it's worse when it's not even a city but a district and that too in South India, making people understand what you need is a task, but somehow you grow into it but to be honest it's still no fun.
The fun part come's with the freedom you get, the spontaneous trips you have, the moment you realise you don't have to lie to mom and dad for coming home late, house parties can be done anytime, you can walk out if you like, can walk in with the one you want, don't have to be afraid if someone catches you smoking, see survival has just been made easy.
One do feel alone, at times you get no one but yourself, one do feel like giving up every day, one gets tired seeking help, so did I but no one actually cares as much about your problems as much as you do, finding the solution on your own, feeding yourself, having faith and the wit within, you understand how important was it to suffer every day to be someone who is wiser and smarter than yesterday.
The point is living on your own, starting from that very age when you just get to have the essence of being an adult, having all those responsibilities and dealing with it makes you the architecture of your own life, a person who understand the perception of others, who patiently waits for his turn or find a way to be their first, a person who starts creating rather than complaining, after these years I might be the product a company needs but surely a product life does.
Himanshu Narang
Himanshu Narang
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