Nostalgia
In the last week, Facebook has thrown up a slew of messages on University Week (my college's real claim to fame).
At this point, I could say something pseudo about how University Week is a little bit like repeatedly meeting an ex-boyfriend and falling back into the lovely romantic routine every single time. But what I really want to say is that I miss university week, my batch and college. It just hit me that I have been out of school and a part of the "real" world for exactly a year now. Right now I'd give anything to rewind back to 5th year. But then I look around me and realize that slowly but surely, I've made a life for myself outside of that world. So what if I miss the old life so so much? I have the new one to cheer me up.
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All the moves from school to junior college to law school (to maybe even my first job) happened through a series of serendipitous experiences. There was little that I intentionally orchestrated. However, I have realized that going forward very little in my life will happen by serendipity... Whether it be finding the love of my life or a new exciting work opportunity, it will come my way only if I'm aware and consciously work towards making it happen. I can't help but miss the coincidences of the past.
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I am amazed at how screwed up life situations can be. I know people who let their friends down again and again and are forgiven every single time. Sure everybody hurts in the first week, but at the end of that week they make up and things are hunky-dory again. Then there are those who will make the same mistakes and have to make amends for long - months, years. Maybe a lifetime.
It may be petty to think of personal dynamics in terms of punishment and paying-your-dues but I get so infuriated when I see it happening around me. I guess the key is to enter the camp of the 'always-forgivers'. Anybody got a step by step guide to doing that?
At this point, I could say something pseudo about how University Week is a little bit like repeatedly meeting an ex-boyfriend and falling back into the lovely romantic routine every single time. But what I really want to say is that I miss university week, my batch and college. It just hit me that I have been out of school and a part of the "real" world for exactly a year now. Right now I'd give anything to rewind back to 5th year. But then I look around me and realize that slowly but surely, I've made a life for myself outside of that world. So what if I miss the old life so so much? I have the new one to cheer me up.
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All the moves from school to junior college to law school (to maybe even my first job) happened through a series of serendipitous experiences. There was little that I intentionally orchestrated. However, I have realized that going forward very little in my life will happen by serendipity... Whether it be finding the love of my life or a new exciting work opportunity, it will come my way only if I'm aware and consciously work towards making it happen. I can't help but miss the coincidences of the past.
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I am amazed at how screwed up life situations can be. I know people who let their friends down again and again and are forgiven every single time. Sure everybody hurts in the first week, but at the end of that week they make up and things are hunky-dory again. Then there are those who will make the same mistakes and have to make amends for long - months, years. Maybe a lifetime.
It may be petty to think of personal dynamics in terms of punishment and paying-your-dues but I get so infuriated when I see it happening around me. I guess the key is to enter the camp of the 'always-forgivers'. Anybody got a step by step guide to doing that?