Life isn’t always what we expect it to be. No one gets everything and whatever little we get certainly needs to be earned, by us or by those who love us enough to pass those luxuries on to us.
It happened just after my boards exams for class 12th were over. School life was finished but as they say the struggle has just begun. My hometown is a small district in eastern side of Uttar Pradesh. We have almost well to do schools up to senior secondary grade but nothing substantial institute over it. So one way or the other everyone has to just move away to some other town in search of better education and future.
It was my time to go on that pursuit. I always wanted to become a computer engineer. For that I decided to go to Kanpur and take a year gap to prepare myself for tough IIT entrance exams.
I always thought that it would be great fun to stay away from home without any restrictions, questions and rules. I was all excited about going to Kanpur.
It was 11th of May & the year was 2008. Everything was in order and it was the day to leave my Home and my City. Earlier only my parents and I have made a one day visit to Kanpur and we have finalized the Hostel & Coaching. So today it was just me leaving the house with all my bag and baggage. With everyone’s blessings I embarked on the journey.
Kanpur is approximately 4 hour ride from my hometown. While riding in that car all alone I was surrounded by thousands of thoughts, thoughts about life, future, career, family & friends.
I was amazed at the irony that life so effortlessly presents us with- Leave a good life with family, friends and happiness to achieve you career goals so that you can live a good life with family, friends and happiness.
We leave exactly the same things in order to acquire them at some later stage all by ourselves. And this is what creates all the difference. Previously when we had it, everything was inherited & now we look forward to earn them all by our own.
This is what makes the smell of success so very lucrative, that message of your first salary being credited to your account and feel of that bundle of notes in your hand is beyond description. It is certainly an out of world thing and all our education, struggles and learning's collapse in that one single moment. It somehow becomes the essence of our existence.
I was now finally in Kanpur. I checked into the hostel that was already reserved for me and moved into my room. It was a single room complete with a single bed and a small study table. Indeed this was all furniture that this small room could all accommodate.
After completing 18 years of my life, here I can see how I was back to a shell in solitude to achieve something big and better. Life is all about these big and small changes, taking decisions that are hard, moving on paths that are tough and traversing goals that are infinite.
We all have our beginnings at some phase of time and only the naive leave a chance to start a new beginning. A Change can Change your life so Start a New Life today.
This post is in support of #StartANewLife campaign by Housing.com
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