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The Accidental Roommate
Roommate : College Memories : Blog
The Beginning
On a random evening, when the leaves on the pathway were yet to be swept, the campus was peaceful and serene, yet to be disturbed by human intervention of the coming batch, I reached here. On the gate, I was welcomed by the security guards and checked my name in the list of new students that was put near the gate.
The registration of students and allotment of their rooms was due for the next day, so they made some temporary arrangement for those who arrived early.“There is another guy who has come this morning, he is staying in room number A-6. Should we allow you the next room or are you willing to share the room with him?” asked the security guard. Being new to the campus and afraid of being alone, I chose the latter option.
We were allotted separate rooms the next day but hoped to convince our respective roommates to swap. Call it misfortune of my good fortune, my roommate was not keen to shift (I guess he was a strong believer of Vastu-Shastra). The guy I stayed with on the first night, wasn’t allotted any roommate. As soon as I came to know this, irrespective of the several emails from the college authorities asking us not to change our allotted rooms, I picked up my luggage and shifted to his room.It was 2014 then, and it is 2016 now, the decision which was then an option, became a choice for me. This choice resulted in lots of memories, times of joy, laughter, arguments, smiles, stories of travel and a journey full of mouth-watering food. It happened accidentally, but we remained roommates for these years.
The mid-way
He had a personality that was in contrast to mine. Calm, composed, having an aura of solace around him. We began as roommates and eventually became companions, friends for a lifetime! Our arguments were usually replaced by understanding. Perhaps, when two persons with opposite personalities meet, a phase of the war is expected. But not here, at least one had a sense of acceptance and nature to forget the grudges and move on. This logic is not restricted to couples. This holds true for the parent-child relationship, or even for a simple friendship. In our case, he was the one who knew when to drop the matter and avoid further arguments.Though he was younger to me, I learnt several things from him. Whether it was his calmness, his profound understanding of things, or the time he dedicated to eating he did everything with ease, peace and patience. Sometimes I noticed that even after having such a laidback attitude, he enjoyed his life, whereas others panicked and ran around like madmen to complete their stuff.
The mid-way continued…
The first year passed, and without a second thought, we chose to be together in the second year as well. By this time we rarely needed words to express our feelings. Many times our silence was the answer, or laughter explained everything. To some extent our choices complemented. Whether it was having food at a particular joint or running back to our homes in whatever free time we could find, or keeping the room dark with fewer lights, we rarely debated or argued on it. It was understood what the other wanted or is comfortable with.
As the season of placements dawned upon us, we too ran the race. He got placed in a very reputed telecom company. Today, after two months of his selection, a mail from his recruiter came. They have given him a joining date from the next week. We were aware of this, but just the thought of him leaving in such a short time sent shivers down my body.
Relationships are described by a set of standard words and so is hatred. But in the midst of these extremes, what we tend to forget are those small, tiny, peaceful relations which we make in a short time and which stay with us for a lifetime.The Closing
My mornings for the next month won’t be the same again. The dependency on him for many things. Starting with making my laptop work, or waking me up early will all be shifted to my shoulders. I doubt that anyone else would be as concerned for my interview rejections as he was. I doubt that anyone makes insult me so much with the intention to work harder for my next interview. Maybe there will be no one in my room during exams to scold me and abuse me for not studying. The obsession that I have with my phone will irritate no one now. No one will ask me to “restrain from using the phone for a day” on his birthday as a gift.
I don’t feel like expressing my affection for my accidental roommate anymore. Maybe just a smile or a laugh while he goes will make him understand how I feel deep inside. But one thing is for sure; that the life we lived in the college campus will reside in our memories forever.
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Hindi Poetry | Kamra | Brother-Sister bond | Video Poetry Hindi Video Poetry Kamra
Your bond with your sister starts from the day you are born. From sharing the same room with parents to sharing all secrets, this relation just beautifies with time. On the same Brother-Sister bond is the poem KAMRA; the emotions you feel when your sister is about to get married and leave you.
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The dialect of my country: Do we have a voice against the government?
The dialect of my country: Poetry: Do we have a voice against the government? is a take on our voices in the present scenario. #dialect :- a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
It’s easy to listen,
Hard to believe,
Difficult to decipher
It used to vary;
With each human,
Like salt in Soup;
According to their taste
,But lately no options whatsoever,
The wavelength of the tone is set,
And frequency is monitored,
Not by you, not by me,
But someone know as masses !
Who are they ?
You don’t know them,
They don’t know you
But they know,
That you believe,
That they exist,
Yes they do !
The country comes to a consensus.
But the individuals are confused ?
Who brought this consensus ?
They are still amused
Unity in diversity we stand for,
Diversity in this unity, we abhor.
We no longer have a voice,
The diversity of states, color , religion and culture has been ceased.
In the society where melody in cacophony would have pleased our ears,
We are left to be just a similar noise
A noise, which is,
Difficult to listen,
Hard to believe,
Easy to decipher
And it never varies,
I don’t know
Whether it is good or bad,
I just don’t understand the same dialect of my country..
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The dialect of my country: Poetry: Do we have a voice against the government?
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20 Facts of being SINGLE.
20 Facts of being SINGLE is for fun. Firstly, there are obviously those people whose LOVE LIFE is flying high, And then, there are those people who juggle a lot with their GIRLFRIENDS {they too at least have a love life}, If, unfortunately, you fall in either of the above-mentioned categories, then please don’t read further, it will be a waste of time for you.
This matter is not a pure work of fiction and its resemblance to any living or dead person is indeed not coincidental. But it has nothing to do with either of the writers. It is not based on their lives. How or what and why the writers’ life exists, is not a topic of discussion here. All they want to convey is that this article is not based on their lives. It may be inspired by their lives, but it is not based on their lives.
20. Facts of Being Single
1. Firstly, only the singles can have this idea, time and patience of writing: “20.Facts of being SINGLE”, because the committed are either in an intoxicated jovial mood that drives them befuddled or have become a maudlin which we more often address as ‘Devdas’ or those who are poor and helpless souls who will be informed by their partners that they should not be interested in such things.
2. Singles have less number of friends but they are friend-zoned more. We are sure you will be able to make out what we want to say if you are single. If you are committed and still reading this, STOP! You won’t understand how euphoric life is to them.
3. Singles feel proud and famous when any girl asks their name or just for the sake asks: “How are you doing?”
4. And when they click a picture with a girl it’s like receiving an Oscar.
5. Singles are the ones who give advice and suggestions about a relationship to all people even more than the committed ones do. Yes, they do, and with such expertise that sometimes even the committed ones doubt “Is that what all happens in a relationship?”Go On !!
6. The people who actually read any articles like “the qualities women look in men to be their boyfriend” are singles. Surprisingly, the people who write such articles are singles too.
7. They just observe and curse when they see committed couples walking together, hand in hand, and think what’s wrong with them.
8. Even the voting ink lasts on finger longer than relationship these days and still, they remain single all time.
9. They are the first ones to like or comment on girl’s post or comment. The first ones to know which movie releases when. And yes, the first ones to even break the news of Aditya Chopra getting married to Rani Mukherjee.TAKE A BREAK BEFORE YOU READ THE NEXT
10. They firmly believe that they deserve someone like Miss World or Miss Universe and they won’t settle for anything less than that, and so they end up being single.
11. They strongly believe that “Axe deodorant” helps you to get attention among girls.
12. Even if they go out with a girl for dinner, their priority is to eat food and not the girl.
13. They are the ones who will wait for every IPL match even when they know that many of the matches are fixed, and still they are the exciting ones as they don’t have anything else to do.
14. They also believe that Sonam Kapoor should have fallen for Dhanush, no matter at what cost, in movie Ranjhana.{Singles sentiments are always with other singles }
15. They feel Sunny Leone is the ideal sanskari bahu.
16. They fall in love every time they see a beautiful girl “jab bhi koi ladki dekhun,mera dil deewana bole, ole ole ole”, but mostly only they themselves know about their true love.
17. They do not like hearing girls talk about love. Because anyhow that feelings are not for THEM.
18. They don’t keep the “do not disturb service” deactivated on their cell phones, because they are not at all disturbed, and also, that increases the probability of hearing a girl’s voice.
19. Moreover, they don’t need to carry their cell phones 24*7 with them. Why? Because they don’t have the privileges to hear “Awwww..so sweet of you my baby” on their phone.
20. And finally Singles even dream that writing such article and posting on blog will make them famous among women and they will become chick magnets.- By Abhishek Mazumdar & Ramta Jogi
20 Facts of being SINGLE.
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The Post-Lockdown resume
The Post lockdown Resume.
Your profile needs to be edited. The experience section needs to be updated in your resume. A separate segment of your learning in the last two months needs to be highlighted. Not only certifications shared on LinkedIn but the takeaways of your overall professional and/or mental growth, as well as understanding, should be highlighted on your resume.
One thing we all must agree that this lockdown due to COVID19 left us with a thought to take a step back and introspect. It can be in terms of what went wrong or what right needs to be done in future. It can be with respect to business, jobs or even our self at large.
I understand many people in and around us will debate and argue about the mental stress of extra working hours and a tensed situation due to layoffs, leaf them so exhausted that they did not get any time or motivation to learn and upgrade with any other certification.
But as I mentioned, it can be either mental or professional learning.
For all the work experience, we already have a Pre lockdown resume.
COVID19 came to us like that uninvited guest whom we didn’t even know. It took our address from some distant relatives of ours and visited us, giving us curiosity, anxiety and fear with each day passing.
The country got deserted and people got caged within their 4 walls. But wasn’t that even an experience? Even this learning must have made us draw certain conclusions on various factors of life and business.
With my experience of 7 years in Sales, I have realised that not always the best person with a typical theoretical knowledge is able to achieve targets on the ground. It is always the one who understands the situation from heart and mind altogether, creates an internal conflict and solves it thoroughly, makes a difference.
It is the EQ that counts more than IQ and what makes the difference is the combination of both.
And to have such an understanding, this lockdown presented you with one of the toughest life situations. To be present in it, managing domestic and professional life altogether. Handling overtime working hours and still managing household chores, Being laid off from Job and still trying to maintain a strong mental behaviour focusing on the way ahead.
This time gave us the freedom we always planned but never took. Freedom to introspect, dig deep and even enhance our knowledge learn new experience and note the learning from it.
Many corporations on their own took this step of enhancing the learning of their employees which definitely must yard better results in the coming months. In other cases, the individual took it on themselves to do the same.
The ones who did this and stayed focus on the best of both (the mental and intellectual) learning, got many such lessons which will help them to decide where the future lies.
The shift from physical to virtual in its complete sense was another aspect of growth. I realised that we have grown up with the concept of Peer to peer learning which always took place in person and also how the corporate environment affects your growth was the idea thrown to us during all corporate meetings. And now we were left with none.
So?
Are the learnings and growth not possible now?
Since ages, it has always been the humans who stood up for their needs. And the ones who did, thrived.
Instead of blaming, let us consider it as a phase of transition and discovery. Somewhere nature had pressed the reset button and now we are back to basics. So that eventually makes us the creators of the new world. It is how we will toil hard now and design it, paves the ways for the future.
So let’s decide what changes we made and how those changes made us in the last two months.
Whether it is,
On working hours?
In coordination virtually?
Or on the impact on productivity?
How was the mental state?
And in case you got sufficient spare time, where did you invest this time in?
There should be a post lockdown resume.
All the learning and experiences should be highlighted in your post lockdown resume. It should be a matter of achievement for you with the understanding and learning with which you came out of this phase. Mentally and otherwise. And all those things need to be highlighted in the resume. You should be able to put down the understanding of this phase.
For the future, the main learning this lockdown has given to everyone is to not take anything for granted and the ones who understood this during the lockdown learnt a lot.
Whether you wish to analyse or answer it to yourself or others, is a personal choice but eventually what did the lockdown bring out in you will sooner or later define you.
Thank You.
