Student life is such a memorable phase in everyone’s lives. Learning about one’s profession, learning how to work around life, forming precious friendships, building oneself all these core events generally take place during student life. Some students have their homes and family in the same town as their educational institution, while some students move cities, states or even countries for the academics of their choice.
Living in a place away from home is an under-rated challenge. In a primitive age, before figuring out adult life, one has to start taking care of their own self. Figuring out a place to stay, food to eat, whom to trust and whom not to, learning how to manage money when you are not yet earning, it’s indeed a task. And one has to do all this while focusing on academics. There are times, when one feels like running back home.
But, day-by-day, it starts getting better. Once one makes friends, things start getting better. Sharing similar experiences and feeling that you are in the same boat as many, takes the sadness off your mind. Gradually, one finds a home! One finds a home in new friendships, in places that one sits and cries, in places where one sits and laughs, in places where the wind brings a quiet peace. Soon, one figures that these were probably the best days of their life, where they learnt, laughed, grew and lived.
So, to the people who are still finding a home away from home, stay strong- it does get better, you do get stronger!
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MBH/AB
as a student i can feel this phase