TAKE ON L.I.F.E!!

Some dreams come true, some don’t.  We don’t exactly wake up every morning expecting to become a millionaire or finding our soul mates or as much as getting breakfast in bed.

We are the mango people… we open our eyes early enough to realize that we’ve a loaded schedule, a pre-occupied event list and a crammed up head ready to burst out of its seams.

We get mulated at the very thought of taking chances but at the end of the day we all live in a realistic world and not an idealistic world. When the day comes to a close, we too want a closure… we try to confront our goals rather than confronting ourselves. All of us want a stable, secure and fulfilling future, but what about the unstable conceptions, the fidgety brooding, the day to day insecurities and the unfulfilling lifestyle?  We render all of these helpless.

These small little things that matter the most in life appear trash and insignificant. In this rat race where everyone wants to be the cream of the crowd, life has lost its depth. People have adapted themselves so, that they no longer mull over the disappointments that they face every day while striving to be the best, or if not that then definitely better than the rest!

Gone are the days when week-ends were meant  for hanging out with friends, partying away or going wild over booze and mid-night movies and pop-corn and piled-up gossips. Now people have become so career-oriented that they don’t even have time to have a proper conversation with their families, leave aside the friends. We have complicated our lives so grossly that life has lost its very essence. And the problem is that we are absolutely fine with the paramount work and negligible fun. We are okay with taking everything in our stride even if it means losing out on living!

Not only do we plan our holidays around our back-breaking curriculums but we even decide our life partners on the same criteria. Love and other things have become secondary while profession and sync have become over-rated!

So much is the burden of being bonafide that people have started becoming commitment phobic. They don’t want anything to come in between them and their bread and butter. Though the people now are more sensible and focused and clear in the head but they no longer value life in its true sense. There’s so much more than just getting through   IIT and AIPMT and CAT, life has so much more to give. The people who are entrapped in this psycho world will never truly understand what fun an instantaneous crazy night out with friends can be, or how much satisfaction there is in a long walk with a friend on a working night. They can never get enough of both the worlds.

I know that because I’ve been there, done that. I’ve stayed up the entire night laughing like a maniac with a group of friends and gone to college the next day in the same clothes, I’ve broken tube lights and damaged furniture, I’ve driven bikes on the highway and gone all the way to Kolhapur(110 km from my college) just to have a burger from McDonald's. I’ve stayed up all night to be with my friend who just broke up with her boyfriend and made her laugh and swear at the same time…..

I’ve studied till 5 in the morning on the final exam night and laughed at myself like a retard for being so mismanaged, unprepared and screwed up. I don’t have regrets in life because I know that at one point in life whatever I did will be all that I ever wanted. I’ve made some amazing friends who I can count on all my friggin’ life, the friends who were my partners in crime, the ones who stole my food from my room, who I played mafia with, who slapped me for being balls over a heartless douche and embarrassed me in front of every face on this planet.

I wouldn’t trade my life for the world…coz it’s that magical world which never comes out of its cocoon. Its priceless and its mine. I’m proud to own it and to be living it and to be doing it justice and to be taking utmost care of it!! 

• Life’s not about having fun when you have nothing to do,

It’s about having fun when you have lots to do and you don’t do it!!

                        -Woody Allen

• If you think I’m living life more than anyone in this world, you’ve hit bull’s eye                                                 

                  -Akankshaa Diksha Sharma