When expectations go haywire
When we all were trying to gather up enough courage to stand up and walk, we were sent to school. We were told it was to be our second home. And for many toddlers it was so. The primary teachers, the poems, the children saying poems in chorus are few things that relates to everyone’s childhood.
Now we are fourteen years past the alphabets classes and now we actually realise why we were taught those alphabets. Letters turned to words, words to sentences and sentences to paragraphs. That is how we got to know what books were. After about 18 years of life we never how each book we read was to one day shape our future.
In every subsequent year, when we went in a new class, new school or just a section change, we did not know what to expect. But as life moved on that year we made friends, enjoyed classes and studied quite a bit too. But one thing that was common for all these years was that life would be almost the same as it were the previous year. Year starts, mid terms, pre-boards and finally the annual exams with quite a bit of competitive exams in the meanwhile.
Today we stand at a point in our lives where we are planning to settle down. The decisions we will take now can hardly be changed and will influence every second of our future. Some of us have already got into colleges they wished to get into while many others are still struggling to decide what they want to do. The future is not clear for any one of us. Even though people seem to be quite sure of what they want to do but when they are asked about their lives a year ahead, they stammer in their replies. But it is obviously better than the replies or rather answers one used to read in the essays when we were young, essays on “The aim of my life”.
The aim of our lives then was not exactly what we wanted to be, it was what our parents wanted to make out of us and sometimes what the essayist of a locally available book wanted to be. But now we write our own essays! :D
From wanting to be doctors, policemen, engineers to help people, the focus has shifted to making money in whatever way possible. This is not a fair world after all. But a few determined ones still go for what they feel good in doing be it successful or not. Life is all about taking chances. :)
But for doing whatever we want we have to go to some college or the other. That is when the battle starts which shall continue for most part of our lives ahead. In the new college we would not only find the seniors to be strangers like in school, but also most of the students around us will be strangers. Thousand new faces with a thousand new stories. That is when our expectations would fail. That is when our expectations would go haywire. Backing out will never be an option. We need to hold ourselves up and face all the challenges that come our way. And hence I would like to wish all my friends a best of luck and life. Take time to decide, enjoy every moment, make friends but remember to hold on to the old ones because a tree with weak roots cannot grow new leaves. Most importantly, learn to forgive and forget.
Lastly remember this quote that I read somewhere.. “When life gives you lemons, learn to make lemonade”. :)
Cheers mates !:))
