While I was busy slacking off.
Classes happened. Some of them were even interesting.
Theatre, debate, quiz society members worked at their respective crafts. People made music, created wall art, constructed beautiful things out of paper, buttons, colours and glue, even went out on rallies, cleaned up the Maidan, then the JU Arts Department parking lot. They were productive, because they care. They care about life, about participating, about promoting culture, being part of something greater than just chilling, just reading and writing sporadically, just being a lazy-ass in general. I'm ok at academics, I do a theatre club once a week, I turn up for other people's cultural events. And yeah, I wrote a book at some point. So fucking what? I've been done for ages, that's an insult of an excuse right now.
Because that's what JU does to you. If you want to, it can be the most instructive, interesting, the most fun place you've ever been. And if you want to end up being a fucked-up loser with no interest in anything till the next fix of whatever does it for you comes along, well, JU will hand it to you on a silver plate with salad on the side. That's the dangerous part - if you mess up, it's because of free will, man.
But it's all cool, man. It's been a while since you last smoked/drank/fell in love/snorted whatever. That's why you're talking shit, that's why you've lost your nerve. Wait it out. You'll be oblivious in a while.
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Give it another month or so. You'll kick it in the butt. Hard.
ReplyDeleteI know, I know. I keep telling myself it's because of 1st year euphoria.
ReplyDeleteSadly, many of us are not fortunate enough to have such options. Sigh. College life, or the lack of it.
ReplyDeleteHaha!I am in my third year in JUDE and I still feel this way at times :P Ah well,but it gets better once you realize what exactly you need to do with time in JUDE (or so I think)
ReplyDelete@ deboo - it's been a month and more. i. am. cripplingly. lazy. dammitdammitdammit.
ReplyDelete@ noosh and @ kaushik - one day, i'll figure it out. have you?
@ storyteller - what do we need to do? i still not knowing. i still gaping at walls of corridor in joo and feeling soporific.