Post-college blues
College life... Ah! Those beautiful days. Perhaps the last attempt at getting out of your inhibitions and doing all insane foolery. One of the final phases where you have a lot of wealth of friends and peers and there is a healthy ecosystem of mad creative energies charging out. Always cushioned by the comfort and support of friends, teachers and everyone in general. Where nothing out of the world is expected from you and life just seems chill. We feel grown-up, independent and enjoy this feeling and riding high on it keep marching.
Unless, when you pass out of college and enter into the more materialistic world. Life post college. Welcome to version 25.0 (yes, because it's not a gradual change, it's a drastic huge leap). We're made to believe that all the transitions we've had from school to higher secondary and then to college are all gradual when we come to this point. The mad race for searching a job starts (Campus recruits, you won't understand the pain) and it gets unending, much thanks to the current employment scenario. While many of us chill-out doing nothing for an year or so on the pretext of being confused whether to apply for a job or pursue higher education. But then family pressure forces most of us to attempt both. This phase too is quite the jolly one. Since you've ample amount of time on your hand you get to indulge in all the fun stuff you missed. The enthusiasts travel, explore, engage in hobbies and the rest indulge in simpler joys like, well, let's just say eat and sleep. Meeting out friends is relatively easier and it almost turns out to be a schedule where all your unemployed peeps catch up and end up talking for hours (Campus recruits, now you shall understand the pain).
Fast forwarding to the next phase, where we end up getting our first job, many a times it might not be the ideal one, well for that matter not even something we would have thought of working on. I know of few people working in extremely bizarre job profiles compared to their educational achievements. Quite a few lucky ones do manage to crack in a sweet deal. But nevertheless, first job does teach you a lot, if not about your job, certainly about job culture and etiquette. Handling people, situations, combating them... I think that's the point where one turns into an adult gradually when you get the hang of things like these.
Quite unknowingly life gets busy and we're all so worked up. We end up seeing the face of our desktops more frequently than that of our parents and friends. Social life (No, Fb and WhatsApp doesn't count; social life and media aren't the same) comes to a lull and at the end of the day we just wish to have good food and rest our bodies. The natural connect and bonds we'd developed with our neighbours, friends starts eventually shadowing out in such scenes. A reunion takes months of planning to be executed where earlier it would be just so spontaneous and impromptu. Cousins, family friends, neighbours who were like our good pals few days back are easily forgotten unless someone gate crashes at your place. Weekends are awaited far more eagerly than anything else. The peeps who meet in the initial phases also seems to draw out as life gets more and more hectic. The routine starts turning into a cliché.
We start wondering if this is the life we wished to grow up to. When we were small, we so wanted to grow up and outwit those nagging adults who used to command us. We never understood why they said that childhood is the best phase of your life then. Now we do realise, that it's not all starry and glittery as it seems. We were better off being innocent and carefree. Now that finally we all have some financial reserves, we don't have the time to enjoy. Such an irony!
This post is not supposed to be a sad one but a real time analysis of how life changes so quick. Also, it's a lesson to all the folks to shell out time for your people before life outruns you (Read as married).
We've got the energy, we've got the money too somewhat (that never is a big deal), we just need to make some time and get the life rolling back. Because, finally:
So I hope to see all of you folks real soon. For, I don't want the post-college life to be just in blues but in all shades of colour that life has to offer. I want it as colourful as it gets.
For all my peeps, aaj sham ko sab log adde pe milna.
Cheers!
Unless, when you pass out of college and enter into the more materialistic world. Life post college. Welcome to version 25.0 (yes, because it's not a gradual change, it's a drastic huge leap). We're made to believe that all the transitions we've had from school to higher secondary and then to college are all gradual when we come to this point. The mad race for searching a job starts (Campus recruits, you won't understand the pain) and it gets unending, much thanks to the current employment scenario. While many of us chill-out doing nothing for an year or so on the pretext of being confused whether to apply for a job or pursue higher education. But then family pressure forces most of us to attempt both. This phase too is quite the jolly one. Since you've ample amount of time on your hand you get to indulge in all the fun stuff you missed. The enthusiasts travel, explore, engage in hobbies and the rest indulge in simpler joys like, well, let's just say eat and sleep. Meeting out friends is relatively easier and it almost turns out to be a schedule where all your unemployed peeps catch up and end up talking for hours (Campus recruits, now you shall understand the pain).
Fast forwarding to the next phase, where we end up getting our first job, many a times it might not be the ideal one, well for that matter not even something we would have thought of working on. I know of few people working in extremely bizarre job profiles compared to their educational achievements. Quite a few lucky ones do manage to crack in a sweet deal. But nevertheless, first job does teach you a lot, if not about your job, certainly about job culture and etiquette. Handling people, situations, combating them... I think that's the point where one turns into an adult gradually when you get the hang of things like these.
Quite unknowingly life gets busy and we're all so worked up. We end up seeing the face of our desktops more frequently than that of our parents and friends. Social life (No, Fb and WhatsApp doesn't count; social life and media aren't the same) comes to a lull and at the end of the day we just wish to have good food and rest our bodies. The natural connect and bonds we'd developed with our neighbours, friends starts eventually shadowing out in such scenes. A reunion takes months of planning to be executed where earlier it would be just so spontaneous and impromptu. Cousins, family friends, neighbours who were like our good pals few days back are easily forgotten unless someone gate crashes at your place. Weekends are awaited far more eagerly than anything else. The peeps who meet in the initial phases also seems to draw out as life gets more and more hectic. The routine starts turning into a cliché.
We start wondering if this is the life we wished to grow up to. When we were small, we so wanted to grow up and outwit those nagging adults who used to command us. We never understood why they said that childhood is the best phase of your life then. Now we do realise, that it's not all starry and glittery as it seems. We were better off being innocent and carefree. Now that finally we all have some financial reserves, we don't have the time to enjoy. Such an irony!
This post is not supposed to be a sad one but a real time analysis of how life changes so quick. Also, it's a lesson to all the folks to shell out time for your people before life outruns you (Read as married).
We've got the energy, we've got the money too somewhat (that never is a big deal), we just need to make some time and get the life rolling back. Because, finally:
So I hope to see all of you folks real soon. For, I don't want the post-college life to be just in blues but in all shades of colour that life has to offer. I want it as colourful as it gets.
For all my peeps, aaj sham ko sab log adde pe milna.
Cheers!
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