The eyes of certainity! An experience to be experienced.

It is never easy for anybody to leave their hometown and settle into a completely strange place where you hardly knew people.

Starting college is like entering in a new phase of life. New city, new friends, new experiences, new responsibilities, these are just a glimpses of what awaits you.

The first most thing that I noticed in Bangalore is that if you are a Kannadiga in a gathering of fellow natives, the one topic that almost inevitably comes up is the apparent "death of Kannada". The gist of these conversations ends up in how the language and culture is slowly fading away.

We accept people from different states, different backgrounds, different languages whole heartedly. Few people think that it is the greatest mistake we have ever committed. As far as I have seen, we keep adjusting to things, to people and surroundings. The fact is that we never expect anything from anybody in return, but when it comes to respecting our language and culture we never step back.

The common miserable dialogue that we hear everywhere is that- "People from all over India are coming to our city, but they don't know Kannada and therefore Kannada is being made a secondary language in our own state."

According to my perception I always felt this was wrong. I always felt that we are putting blame on the 'outsiders' for not following our culture. Is our culture really so weak that it is dependent on outsiders being forced to learn it to survive?

Culture cannot be imposed on anyone and it cannot be ordered. Culture has to be learned, it has to be respected. No one is going to save our culture. We need to save it ourselves. This is a sensitive matter, I feel that must be taken care of.

Secondly, what I learnt staying alone is mainly the basic survival skills. Staying away from home makes you stronger than ever before. You learn to deal with your own shit on your own, with your kind of way may be right or wrong. Most importantly, you learn to be happy all by yourself.

This is one of the biggest changes that occurs in the life of most students. I personally had a roller coaster of experiences. You might feel homesick, but at the same time you would also be pretty excited about living alone. 

I faced so many situations where I felt very lonely at some point in spite of so many people surrounding you. I felt very weak many a times. In spite of having everything I need, yet I felt that there was something that I was lacking about. In such situations, talk to your family, talk to your loved ones for sometime, and all your worries will be disappeared in no time.

In everybody's life then comes the stage where you start making friends and these friends start becoming your family. You start sharing your precious moments with them. You miss your home a little less than you used to.

Everything has its own pros and cons, so make the best of what you have. Because once you graduate in a few years you'll look back fondly at these experiences that you had in your hostel. So make every moment count.