A beginning

“ Welcome to the real world, it sucks! But you are going to love it!!”- Monica Geller, FRIENDS

Every one goes through pretty much the same timeline in their life- Ur born, go to school, go to college and if you are really very ambitious you even go a step further and go to a University. We may go to different institutions, have different experiences but there isn’t much that makes our lifecourse any different from another human on this planet.

Its only once we our done with our duties and responsibilities  that societal norms have set, do we get a chance to be an individual, to create a space- a name, an identity for ourself. For until now you have been someone’s child, someone’s sibling, or another person’s friend, or someone’s student!

As you take that step out into “the real world” (that’ what they call it, starting to live a life that is not scheduled/ designed for you exactly as it is for another person, you begin a journey to carve a name for yourself in this mad world in the process contributing in your own little (or big) way and leaving behind a mark of your originality.

So not very different from the others, after finishing my formal education, I lazed around like any exhausted young adult, believing that having successfully achieving my responsibilities,  it was my right to “not do absolutely anything”! But however the elders feel somehow you just haven’t done enough, and before you can even start planning a life for your self,  you are bombarded by the same questions wherever you go-“So whats next?” ;” Are you planning to work or getting married?”- this phase forces one to become an unsocial individual, which surprisingly leads to the next  set of overused questions- “ Whats wrong?”; “You are a young girl, you should go out and have fun!”- ( really I didn’t know that, I would love to do that if you’ll let me).

Finally, having experienced all the hypocritical statements, and almost becoming immune to it after a point, I found it! I found a place, an opportunity, a starting point to begin “MY LIFE”. (and coincidentlly its called “The Fuller Life”).

“All this while it felt like a half of me was missing, and without that half how am I supposed to know who I really am?”

So now that I finally begin my “worklife” this week, filled with nervous tension, happy anxiety and an element of uncertainty, I hope I can find that missing piece of me that “makes me, me!”

I truly belived it when Monica Geller said it, and I now want to go and experience it!! J