Living The Hostel Life

Everyone love's staying away from their family but you know the tragedy only when you actually start living away from your parents. Hostels can be really messy sometimes and the scenario can sometimes be like you've not found one pair of socks, there’s no one to scold you about how untidy your room is and you live a happy-go-lucky life with no worries about the next day, hour or moment.

When all these things happen to you simultaneously you know you live in a hostel. I mean, honestly speaking, what else can you expect from a bunch of young adults living together in the same vicinity, virtually under the same roof, without any supervision or parental control? But apart from the carefree lifestyle, living in a hostel helps individuals learn and understand many things.

With this Comes up many challenges and I've written a few pros and Cons below:

Freedom
A hostel is a youngster’s heaven. If I were to use one word to define what living in a hostel feels like, it would be ‘freedom’ – unreserved, utterly blissful freedom.

Undoubtedly, out of the many perks I have come across while living in a hostel, the most awe-striking and often the most coveted one is the liberty that hostels offer to students. For many, it is the first time in their lives that they are completely on their own and responsible for their own actions. The thrill of this freedom acts like adrenaline and helps many in getting a taste of what life really is all about. You don’t have to depend on anyone anymore. You are exposed to a situation where you learned to handle all yourself. Hostel life actually turns out to be the best part of life!

Decision Making Skills
Whether it is about eating only chips and biscuits for dinner (because that’s all you can afford) or wearing whatever wrinkled piece of clothing you find lying around the room, you are your own boss. Whether you take a bath after a football game or go to sleep without taking one, whether you study all night or talk about random, meaningless parables with your roomies, it is your decision, unadulterated by any external pressure or advice from your parents.

And believe me, making these decisions helps a person grow.
It won’t be an exaggeration if I added that living in a hostel breeds within an individual the traits of a leader – you learn how to make tough decisions and more importantly, you learn to stand by your decision and actions.

Gossips
Girls and gossips have always gone hand in hand and so does sharing of information with their roomies. Every girl has a different group in the call but at the end of the day when all of us sit together for dinner and that's how it goes. We maintain secrets, chit chat, and late night conventions are the best when you have more than 100 topics to talk. From talking about others boyfriends ti drooling over guys to family functions and how much you miss being a part of them now and bitching about someone. They all go hand-in-hand.

The Roomie
Your college life can only be amazing if you have a good roommate. Imagine having a roommate whose very dirty or does not take a bath sometimes and for those you obsess over cleanliness would start facing a bad time. Imagine it's examination time and you haven't studied anything and you make up your mind to study but end up listening to rock music, ordering food because you'll be hungry at night while studying but end up not studying anything because there was no Vibe in the room. These night-long discussions and 3 am music parties become the fuel you need to get through the tough study schedule. At the end of your term, they will obviously become Your sisters from another mother, if they don't change your roommates!

An emotional Roller-coaster
Hostel life allows you to discover yourself and the range of emotions you have. It helps you understand how strong or weak you are in emotional situations. It even helps you hone your interpersonal skills time and again when you’re forced to counsel, talk and console a mate during their emotional breakdowns

your next door neighbor might turn out to be a sentimental girl/guy who cries every Mother’s Day, listens to cheesy music after every break-up and yes, cries a lot every Valentine's day especially if he is alone (which, given his emotional breakdowns, he usually is!).

So, good luck getting him through these phases if you are not much of a ‘people’s person’.

Washroom Blues
Hostels are mostly living together with two or more people and sharing common amenities with your roomies is a must. Similarly, washroom is one of those common facilities which you need to share with roommates or with people on the same floor. The days begin with long queues outside each washroom. Sometimes, there might be water shortage also. Using washroom in hostel according to our convenience is actually a big deal!

What's there to hide
Dressing up and trying out new clothes is one of the major attraction that pulls most of the girls' attention towards it. Exchanging dresses with your roomie and seeing a trial in front of them is actually not a big deal! Due to the lack of privacy and space in hostel rooms, it leaves with no choice other than moving around in bare minimum clothes in front of roommates. And in a place where only girls are present, it turns out to be a daily routine!

Jointly complaining about the hostel food
Staying a hostel everyone ends up eating Maggi most of the times or Swiggy and Zomato becomes our savior because sometimes the food is pathetic and it becomes all the more difficult if it's the end of the month and we end up eating saltless dal and burnt roti sometimes. We do get homesick and realize how important is mom's haath ka khana!Our taste buds are already dead I feel.

Whatever is the situation these people will always have your back and staying in a hostel is one hell of an experience. Make the most out if it and make sure that you can count on these memories in the future and we agree or not we do miss this when we go back home because staying together with them has now become a habit and They are our Family here <3.