Change

In what has been close to 2 years here now, one thing that I have experienced much more than anything else, has been change. Not only have I changed myself, but my friends have also changed. That sentence has two possible meanings, and both meanings are equally valid.

The first one meaning that the people who I am friends with are different. The group of people I spent time with in my first year is very different from the people I have spent time talking for hours outside the entre store in my second year. In the first year, my friends circle consisted mostly of my classmates, and more often than not, the people you would see me around was my study group. But the second year forces you to meet a lot more people and also work with a lot more people. And thus, my friends circle grew and changed. One thing I have noticed happening here is that no one can stand anyone else for too long. There are few people who stay friends for the entire two years. But I have seen people who were extremely close at one point of time, now hating each other’s guts. Is it the extremely competitive nature of the life here? Or is it just that we need change? Or is it just that with time, you see sides of someone that you don’t like?

The second being that my friends have changed themselves. People are very different in the second year as compared to how they were in the first year. Some people forget from where they have come. They forget how they were in the first year. And some people mature through these two years that it’s amazing seeing the transformation. I hope that I too have matured and grown up with my experiences in these years. There are points of my life that I feel were critical in shaping me into what I am now. And I think that my 2 years here is once such point of my life. And at the same time, I hope I never forget from where I come, and how I once was. I hope that I appreciate things people do, and am able to empathize with others. I hope I always remember what drove me to work hard and try and get into IIMA and remember how my parents have struggled and toiled through for years to get me a good education. And I hope I become the son they have always wanted and deserve.