7 things that didn’t go as planned when you left home-

As students, leaving your cities for college, away from your home, we have certain hope and expectations from ourselves. Things that we think we want to do, we think we can handle. A lot of these things, we have taken for granted at home, within the secure environment that we have lived in till our late teens, the environment we grew up in and grew used to. It all changes when we leave our homes-

1. Food

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Like my mother used to say, you have food to survive, and I’d always retort by saying that just sometimes we survive for food. But great home food is the essence of life. And that is one of the things in this list that we are all guilty of taking for granted because honestly none of that home-delivered food from homely or truffles can mimic the taste of that mom-made food (even simple dal chawal).

2. Money (or our Finance troubles)

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I mean, we have that constant flow of everything when we are at home, food, clothes, shoes, even your favourite slightly expensive shampoo at home, but you can’t afford most of that with the meagre pocket money you get for ‘essentials only,’ because “we have paid for your hostel room, canteen food, we got your new clothes for the new college and just manage with head and shoulders no.”

3. College life

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This expectation from college, before joining the college, a campus like that from Student of the Year, extracurricular activities like that from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, some really attractive students like those from American teen soap operas but you get that bleak grey building and loads of no-sleep days, that’s it.

4. Going out

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You make all these plans with friends you will make and meet in college. Googling all the good spots to hang out at and around your college, but trust me someone or the other will bunk that plan every Saturday or you will be drowning in assignments to be really thinking about anything else.

5. Friends

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You thought you will keep in touch with everyone from your school (or schools, those of you who have changed schools all your life). Relationships change. Newer relationships are made. Living in the hostel, you will create memories and friends of a lifetime.

6. Family

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You will enjoy that independence. But give it a year, maybe even less, and you will get terribly homesick. Friends become family, but you will miss your mom when you get that stomach ache, and your dad when you need that emotional support at 10 or 2 in the morning. Realize the true value of family only when you have finally learnt to live without them. No matter how much you grow up, or how many years you stay apart, you will never outgrow family.

7. You will have a lot of fun

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You. Will.

No matter what day of the week, or what time of the day it be, you will have your friends-turned-family back you up always. Be it the college stress, or heartbreak, or gossip and even just a heart to heart conversation or a trip to Nandi Hills at 4 in the morning.