THREE SENTENCES.

Campus, a dream come true for most. This is where the journey begins for
most, but question, where is the road headed? is it for the better or is it for the
worst. Well for our dear lady we can’t say much about where the road will end
because the journey has just begun, she is still young, ambitious and hungry for
success.
Dressed in a blue dress, with some white rubber shoes. she stood at the
entrance of the university with hope and aspirations. Her eyes filled with tears
of joy and satisfaction that finally her dreams had come true. She was escorted
by her parents and her sisters all happy for their beautiful daughter and sister
joining campus. She was enrolled to do her degree in civil engineering, a course
she was not only passionate about but a course she had dreamt pursuing her
whole life. She had termed herself “engineer so and so”. She went on with her
admission at the university and within a minute, she was done with her
admissions and she had already gotten herself a nice cozy bedsitter all for
herself. Speaking of being loved by dear mother, who didn’t want her daughter
associating herself with other people, all she wanted was her daughter focused
on her goals and happiness.
On she began her classes officially on a Monday, all focused on becoming an
engineer one day. It seems easy but its not always easy the way it seems. She
started off dealing with social anxiety. She was not used to being around
people every time and associating with new people, new faces. It was hard on
her. She did not know how to deal with it. What is Luck? she was just lucky; it
was the era of corona and people were wearing surgical masks. Lucky her so in
a way she was able to maneuver her way through the first days of campus with
her mask. But she couldn’t run away from socializing with people for so long.
First, she didn’t know where the school mess was, so all this time she was
getting her meals from the lecturer’s mess. We cant blame her for not knowing.
Well, she had a good share of the lecturer’s meals for some time almost up to
two months before she realized she was dinning with the masters at the same
table.
Social anxiety did not stop there it took her to eating her carried meals to the
farm. I wish social anxiety was a person and karma would have dealt with her
in the right way. Other than that, she was focused on her goals and on the first
semester nothing else bothered her at the school. She continued shinning her
star even at the university competing with men at that field but she was so
brilliant, people now did not associate with her because men are frightened by
women with brains and power and she had all that in her. Know its not social
anxiety she is fighting she is dealing with having to be too bright in her class,
but of course that was the least of her problems.
Parties, a name she often heard in movies or books she was reading but never
had she interacted with it before. Well at that time she was too focused she did
not mind what it entailed but everyone is curious at some point. Curiosity
crawled into her head and she was curious. What happens at parties? all my
friends are talking about parties. All my friends are inviting me to parties. Let’s
try it out, it won’t hurt that much just knowing what its all about. She tries out
one, it’s not that bad, she loves it, a second one becomes a seventh one, but
the goal is still intact the goal is to became engineer so and so. Well, if its not
really your thing you will get bored doing it. But that was not for her case. she
one time messed up big time while she was drunk and she said never again am
I touching alcohol. That was the last time she was seen holding a tumbler
containing some bitter liquid except when she is drinking medicine.
Campus comes with a lot of different people and someone gets to meet a lot of
different people and of course she met people. To be specific she met
someone, someone who we could say changed her life, positive or negative?
Many would ask. Well, she was not the type to be impacted negatively since
everything that happened to her life, happened for a reason. In short, she
would take the bitter lemons and turn them into a lemonade and the sweetest
of honey and turn into it zester or something more useful. This time it was
different, this time she could not change the lemon to lemonade or the honey
to jam. This time, life was unfair to her. Life really fucked her up. The innocent,
happy, focused, beautiful engineer fell in love. Well, the joker once wrote
“never fall in love, since everything that falls always breaks”. Did she break?
was her heart broken by a boy? a lecturer? a watchman? a girl? a cook? It was
worse, he didn’t break only her feelings, she tore our engineer to tiny, miny
pieces that were hard to recollect. She received the most devastating news, she
had never thought about. The news was so shocking to her, thoughts of
dropping out of school were the only option she could think about. How about
suicide, did she think about it? she did. How would she tell her parents? how
would she face her friends? Questions after questions after questions lingered
her mind. But one thing stood out: she was going to be engineer so and so. Get
set for next time to get to know what happened.
Three sentences stood out: U is kind,
U is smart,
U is important.