For me it is synonymous with fun, friends, boring lectures, fests, awkward dates, crazy night outs, bad decisions, wild experiences, spontaneous living and the freedom to make and be responsible for everything.
Yes, those years...
The years when we were:
Neither teenagers nor adults!
Neither novices nor veterans!
When the world was one’s oyster and settling for anything less than the heart desires was to sacrifice the gift!
For most, college life defines their perspective towards life. With graduation, some move on for the need of a better view on life. For others there is a spillover of the college lifestyle long after.
Then there comes a point when one realizes ones responsibilities towards family and society.
The need to consciously give back!
The need of being an active participant in shaping the world of tomorrow!
The need for living life by design and not by default!
Such a phase and the decisions to be made then, is probably best described by Shakespeare in his work ‘Julius Caesar’ -
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyages of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
I guess it is time to be more responsible towards parents and family who have been patient with my every tantrum, heed to the wishes of the lady who has waited long after her turn, thank the friends who have never left my side and become a better man!
