“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and
to know one’s self”
~ Benjamin Franklin
~ Benjamin Franklin
My sister starts her college life today. We are all very
happy for her to get a place in one of the best law schools of the country and
hope that she does extremely well in her course. Though more than doing
extremely well in her course, I asked her to do well in being a good human
being and really take the time out to find who she is.
During school we have minimal responsibilities and also
minimal freedom making it very difficult for us to define who we really are.
Most of the times, we are an extension of someone who had the privilege of
being born before us – we are someone’s child, someone’s sibling, someone’s
grandchild. Working life gives us total freedom but also a lot more
responsibilities which may bog us down and make us forget what really matters
to us. College life provides the right balance of freedom and responsibility to
really find out things which make us tick, things which resonate with us,
things that put us off. Try out new things and see which hat fits ‘YOU’
the best – with a special emphasis on You here as you don’t want peer pressure
to make you biased towards certain things. Take out the time to do some
volunteer work to find how you can contribute to the society, do some part time
to understand the value of money, take part in extra-curricular activities and
most importantly build great relationships - relationships that will lay the
foundations of your network and impact your college life to a great extent.
Read a lot and experiment a lot. Challenge the status quo and learn to fail at
convincing people otherwise.
Go there and rule the world or at least lay the foundation of creating your own world!!
