TEACHINGS

Just the other day I was feeling sorry for myself because of the predicament I am in because of the job situation and then due to some reason or the other I embarked on another journey into my life at Shaktinagar.
What I remembered this time is about Madhura, a very good friend of mine.We met at a crucial time , we were in class 11th . She shifted to Shaktinagar and joined St. Joseph my first school . We started talking and became friends more so because we were living close by. Well then came class 12 and we gave board exams the results were announced. Then started the actual rat race of life that is entering in the best college ,

( I wonder how actually our parents hope that we mere youngesters of 17-18 can decide at that very point what we want from rest of our lives)

I can't decide till now....... but that is of no consequence. anyways where was I yes ...... so the results came out and then she got selected for Manipal Sikkim university and boy was I jealous . That college was everything I wanted my college to be . It was set in a picturesque place , perpetually cold area, one of the best universities of India, a COED, and it was all about luxury.And I was going to Banasthali Vidyapith a college for girls set in some forest outside Jaipur capital of the hottest state of India . It was dirty and there we were meant to learn all the housework, no luxuries .....what a contrast from what I wanted my college to be like. So anyway we started our college life and we met during the holidays and we talked. Those days I was full of yearning to go to her college. I used to think why is she there I was better I should have been in Sikkim Manipal. I used to hear the tales, see the pics and have nothing to tell except having to share bathroom with 12 other people , sharing room with five. Two years went by and then something happened in our third year. I was busy with my preparation of MBA . I just lost touch. then she called and told me that she had left college. I had an inkling that she was having trouble but never knew that it grew so out of proportion.During the holidays she started telling me the harrowing time she had been through. it was awful . She had to leave the college due to nervous breakdown. She had nervous breakdown because people there were mistreating her. so she had to leave college in between her course and this meant her last three years were wasted . As I listened to her problems I began to see what all I had gained by living in a forest in Rajasthan . I had made great new friends , had learned to stand up for myself , had generally become a more stronger person. I had learned how to deal with people. I learned how where you lived didn't matter if you were enjoying the time.I met some great people who were so nice to me. I learnt that for a place to be nice it was the poeple who mattered not the general area one lives in. I felt pity for her because now she had to to look back and found her memories tainted while I had a only to look back and gain positive energy from my time at my college.
But then I forgot that everything happens for a reason. now my friend is a better judge of people . She has grown up truly. and back then it was my duty to give her advice and now its my privilege to receive advice from her. In my MBA during the bleak time when I was thinking of leaving the course she told me to go on because she didn't want me to have to look back and regret not completing something which I started.Her exact words were " Ankita if you come back now u'll look back and feel that if only I had completed my MBA don't do this to yourself.
And so life turned a full circle.
My friend has now completed her graduation and I have completed my MBA.
The point of telling all this is that I want to come to terms with the fact that everything happens in life for a reason. So the recent bleak period is just a phase and it'll pass.