My Personal Heaven

There are these wonderful moments when we stumble upon happiness. And we find it in the most unexpected of places. Here's my story & how i found mine.

I didn't make it to my dream college, my dream college is the best in the country, it has acres & acres of land & has some of the best brains in the country. Before my entrance exam that would decide my fate (in or out) i closed my eyes & prayed hard. I want to get in. I want to get in. I want to get in . 

But see, there's this thing they say about how stuff happens only if God wills it (yeah I am a believer) & only if its in his plan. I suppose this college didn't figure in his plan for me. So the nice person he is, the let down he gave me for not getting in was easy to bear- he gave me a wonderful second option, and the pick of three colleges. So i again closed my eyes & prayed hard. Please let this have been the right choice. Please let this have been the right choice. Please let this have been the right choice. My right choice, i was told by the people who understood its worth, was the right decision. My new campus was..well, tiny but green (thinking positive). Brain power? Man, it scored. And scored high. The first day was good, satisfactory. Nobody came there because it was their dream place. They came there because they were reasonably good students & had a wide variety of interests & needed a place to manage it all. We 35 students were an odd bunch. Some of us were miss goody-two-shoes-es, some punkish tattooed chics or ponytailed guys and musicians, writers, foodies & vilonists. Basically we were an interesting melange of people & yes all of us under the same roof. 

You know how they talk about being able to fit in. Well i fit in the weirdest of places, i won't say i found a niche, i didn't, but i did meet wonderful people filled with warmth & brains. They have their opinions -wacky, weird & sometimes downright humorous/offending (depending on who is at the receiving end). After years of being in intellectual wilderness, this new place with all its fresh ideas & theories & hobbies, is my personal heaven. Its just been 3 weeks and perhaps too early to shout out your love for your college to the whole world. But its just that acceptance & happiness don't often go hand in hand & when it does,  its the best thing that ever happened. 

 Yes, my college is still not awe inspiringly huge, but the bright red Gulmohars, the ancient wisdom tree & the stone benches add to its scholarly air. My classmates aren't the brightest students in the country but neither are they factory manafactured engineers fresh off the assembly lines. They are strong opinionated individuals. Remember how things don't work out because there's something better? Well, the course I had aimed for is rumored to be shutting down starting next year even though the Institute is the best in the country & attracts the brainiest of brainy people. Sometimes failures happen because there is this one bright spot of happiness (even success) to be discovered & the universe doesn't want you to round the corner before you find it.And this is the single most important lesson I've learnt this past year, So here i am a brand new college girl, feeling my way through my new life & charting my own little pathway in the big bad world. And the journey so far has been pretty incredible.