Lockdown: a college student edition

For an average college student like me, life has transformed so much during this lockdown. Living in a hostel for two years, made me forget what it was like to be at home. How it feels to spend so much time with your family hits you at a different level when your stay was so unplanned and seems almost never-ending now.

     Staying at home has its own perks and problems. One day, you are devouring all the savories and the next day you are standing with a frying pan in your hand and making an attempt to cook something not only for yourself but for your whole family. Every hosteller becomes used to his or her peace after they've spent a certain amount of time, trying to adjust to their hostel environment. But you can't expect the same amount of sanity and peace in your home. This can be said because as soon as you will make up your mind to study, your little brother would want your laptop. Or as soon as you'll start a new web series, your mom will hand you a long list of household chores to be completed. Or when you finally start with a comedy movie, that was on your to-watch list for a very long time, your dad will ask you to suggest to him some deadly action movie and then expect you to watch it with him. 

      Being at your home is like a roller-coaster ride but its perks always suppress its problems. You are relieved of many hostel chores like there, I'd be spending every Saturday washing my underwear and bras. But you have the gift of an automatic washing machine at home. Just throw all your messy clothes in it and that magical machine will wash and give them back to you in so much lesser time. Honestly, I'm so amazed by its magic(xD) but enough of that now. Also, when at home you can lay your head in your mother's arms forever. Maybe, I should say till she asks you to get lost and get some work done. 

     For a lazy one like me, this has turned out to be something I never expected out of myself. I finally decided to try everything that I've been missing out on for so long like baking, doodling, writing, and most shockingly, exercising. There is just this one thing that I wanted to do but couldn't. Actually, none of us can do it right now. It's traveling. I've been longing to visit Kolkata to witness the Bengali tradition for quite some time now, so much so, that I even got my passport updated a few months back. But ughh !!! This lockdown. It wouldn't let us roam around and travel the world. I know, it's for our own good and safety. I know that but it still doesn't make me not miss traveling.

     Even though I've to get up every morning for sweeping and mopping, I still can't imagine what it'll be like to go back to living in the hostel. Just like any other college student, I too am missing my friends a lot but how will our life get any similar to what it was before this lockdown. With all that comfort at home, wouldn't you feel homesick when you go back now- the way you felt when you stepped your foot in your hostel room the first time after your parents left? Maybe there'll be butterflies in your stomach or maybe you'll be all enthusiastic about getting back to a routine and with your friends. Well... You'll know...