Worth The Wait...

As I came back to my hostel room the other night after dinner, I sat on the bed and felt, “Yar, Ghar Ki Yaad Aa Rahi Hai.” Remember  how I mentioned about “curiously waiting for the day I start to feel homesick..”?, I felt a slight inclination of it that day. The next day when I went to the city and was sitting inside the bus, seeing the busy roads, traffic jam, high buildings.. again Delhi came to mind. For 3 long years during my under-graduation , I used to mostly travel by bus. So those days got refreshed again. For the next few days, some of the home memories continued to occupy my mind- the people, food, room, TV, pet, leisure, roads, places..... 

I knew I wasn’t homesick, but I also knew that for the first time in over 12 weeks in Pune, I was missing that Delhi feel. Initially, it was like I came as a bird willing to go places, but for the past few days, I was like a bird who would go places only when needed. First time away from home, I knew this would happen someday, but happily enough, I still strive to stay here because there have been instances which just made my diary of memories, if I ever compile one. My parents often ask me “So all good na? You have the course of your choice now, how’s it?” I always reply that they shouldn’t expect a eureka moment every other day, this was like any other B-School but pertained to what I was interested in. So while I haven’t really broken any academic records so far, there have been those moments every now and then that give me the satisfaction and happiness nothing else can. It’s during those moments that I say to myself,
“Yes! You’re good enough.”

This day, two months from now, I will be sitting back home in Delhi. I’m waiting for that day, but not longing for it. Have you heard of the word “utopia”? It means a perfect world. I’m looking to create my own utopian world- one where I stay on the hill to work towards achieving what I set out to, and then returning home, to the place where I came from. That world is still a work in progress, just like the picture on the right. 

Till the time it that perfect feeling is achieved, the wish to go back home is definitely worth the wait.
As for you'll, the wait is till next Sunday when I share a new post.

Until Next Time...
Take Care :)

The Real Friendship...

When I started writing this blog, it was purely out of my interest in writing. I didn’t think one day I would have a bundle of posts such that I could refer the readers to a previous one. But I can do that today!!
So, Happy Friendship Day to all of you reading this post, and as I mentioned above, here’s what I wrote on Friendship Day last year, albeit on a different platform, while I was an intern. Yes, I am not someone who just sits at home and writes, I am a pretty useful resource! 

Anyways, I’m hoping you must have wished all your near and dear ones by now, or are enjoying with them right now. Either ways, it implies you pretty much had a nice day. You know, when I was in primary school, there were these sessions where we were told how to make friends, and why making new friends was good for us, although as the years went by, the same teachers were adamant on separating the friends because they, to quote one such teacher, “ hampered the decorum of the class!!” Hampered & decorum?? We had no idea what these words meant back then. Anyways, when we had our pre-induction classes here before the inception of the MBA program, a key element of these activities was to get to know each other, make friends. Some of my fellow batch-mates also stated that their objective for the first few days would be to make new friends, get to know people. Fair enough. All of us have made our friends now, formed groups and all that. Naturally speaking, this is what happens everywhere. You meet new people, interact with some of them and become friends with few of them.   

You know what’s the best thing about friendship?
Its unconditional and doesn’t have a screening process!!
I became friends with you because I like your company, you befriended someone else because you liked theirs’. Simple. The problem starts when you start analyzing. I have seen people wanting to be a part of so called group because they are perceived as "cool". And in doing that, they tend to ignore the friends they already have. No two persons on this planet are the same, even if they are humshakals, no two persons have the same habits, irrespective of how close they are. Honestly, the essence of friendship is not that your friends are like you, rather its about the fact that they like you, and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters. Its upto you to decide where you wish to go, to the ones who like you for who you are or the ones you want to be liked by for what you could possibly become. Make the right choice, and I’m sure you won’t rely on the 1^st Sunday of August to wish someone a Happy Friendship Day, rather you’ll celebrate it every single day. 

Now that I read this post again, it feels more like a lesson from Panchtantra Ki Kahaniyaan, but anyways, as I have always said, I write because I like doing so and not so that others like what I write.
Ahaan, I applied the above friendship principle to this blog as well, seems like pursuing MBA is showing its results!!

Before I end, here’s wishing you’ll a very happy friendship day.

Until next time

Take care :)