After a long hiatus, I’m back to my world again! (Been so long, I almost stopped to think what my password was).

It’s been a whole new chapter. As a good friend of mine put it, ‘College ends. Life begins.’ Outside the protective portals of my alma mater, I find it’s a whole new world out there.

New people, new experiences, new titles, new challenges. The one common thread that binds them all to me is new learning. I’m not trying to be philosophical here, but somehow a lot of paradigms change when you experience something new. The texture of your life changes in a certain way.

Earlier, when I was hassled or frustrated with the curve balls thrown at me, I’d say ‘Why me?’. But now, I somehow feel a little older. and wiser. I wonder why anyone would want to run away from those curve balls. How would you know how to bat, when life threw you a bigger googly? These little obstacles in the way, I realize are practice matches at the net, where you’re preparing for the finals.

Rain upsets my perfect outing. Someone tells me I’m no good. Someone else judges me too quickly. Someone smothers me. I get splashed by muddy puddle on the day I’m wearing white. I crave for things that I just won’t get.

But guess what. I’m not going to dodge these experiences. Nobody’s going to give them to me again when I really need to learn from them. There’s no rule in the world which says, ‘Nothing bad can ever happen to me.’

This time I’m not saying ‘Why me?’. I’ve learnt to say, ‘Why not me?’. I’m going to be right here. Never running away.