So.

The beginning was smewhere in the middle. I had just passed my 10th class and now it was time for junior college. According to my observations and hearing it from a lot of 'SENSIBLE' people, I was sure that everything about college was cool and happening. To me, as it was told by some learned elders, this was the beginning of my life. It was a jump from school to a whole new thing where you get to bunk lectures, make fun of situations, talk to girls, make new friends, new enemies, experience new things and much more. 

So, me and my two besties, Rahul and Chinmay were in search of a decent college in our town. We had our own individual expectations from our future college. Chinmay wanted a college where he should study and have fun. Rahul was a bit open minded, he wanted a college with low amount of studies and high amount of girls. And me, I had a hell lot of things in my mind about my college thanks to some movies which I watched earlier. I wanted my college to have a huge premises where I can roam as I wanted and when I wanted, it should have green lawns where i will sit with my friends and do a lot of masti and dhingana, and as far the girl part is considered, I was not too keen about it. For me, first came my friends then my family and after that everything else.

Our daily schedule was like getting up at 6, go to morning walk at 'MALTEKDI', which by the way is a popular spot in the city, after coming back home watch some TV then in afternoon roam here and there in the town, come back home watch some TV and in evening again roam here and there in the town. At nights we used to sit at our #adda till 11. There, the topic of discussion used to be very serious. For example; life, career, job, etc etc. So if some one who has observed us throughout the day would not believe that we're the same guys who are so serious at night. This schedule used to be fixed with no change. We three were so close that at times when one of us used to be busy, the remaining two would feel like a dead body. Without even one of us everything was boring and when we three used to be together anything was interesting and fun filled.

I guess somewhere at the back of our minds we three were hoping to get the same college and we had a discussion on this topic as well and the conclusion was that either the college would shut down or they will expel us. But we knew that this was not going to happen as we three had a huge difference in our respective percentages. And we were prepared for that as well.

As we had fun we had our respective struggles as well. Rahul's father was pressuring him to go for diploma in engineering which he did not wanted to go for. Chinmay was clear that he wants to go for junior college then engineering and was concerned about rahul. Me on the other hand was so uninterested in studies that I would have done anything they both would have done. Actually I believed that I have enough knowledge and didn't needed certificates just to prove it. I was more interested in practical knowledge than in theory one. So I was unsure that What I wanted to do after this. I asked my father that what should I do and he said "Mera sapna hai ke apni family me ek engineer ho. To tu polytechnic kar yane engineering me admission asaane se ho jayegi." (and he said it in the exact same way as it is written). But I was not at all interested in engineering. I don't know why but i was not interested in it. I met a lot of guys who passed 10th the same year as mine and they were all sorted out. they all knew what they wanted to do in life. They all wanted to do the same thing "ENGINEERING." I could not understand 'Why ?'. I mean there are numerous amount of courses one can persue but everyone I met had the ultimate dream of becoming a #Successful_Engineer. I was confused like anything. I knew that something is going wrong, I could sense it but didn't knew what it was.

So the admission forms came out and the worst thing was that till then I had not decided what to go after. I was in a dilemma whether to choose polytechnic or science. Both courses were different than each other but the only common thing was that I was uninterested in both. So to clear all the confusion I filled up for both the courses and decided to give myself some time to decide what I wanted to do. It would take almost a month for the results to come out and I thought one month is enough for me to decide.

And the serious thinking period began. I would talk to everyone in my huge family about this. I would even talk to strangers that whether poly is good or science, some would say poly and some would say science, some would say none and some said BOTH. I wondered for the people that said BOTH that how can they say both when they haven't done any, I mean these guys were far from engineering and science and they said both courses are good without even trying any of them. This struggle to decide gave me my first reality check about the Indian mentality that no matter what people have done in their lives or what they are doing, they think that they know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING.

So, here I was confused about my future and waiting for the results to come.......