NetSujit World

Recently I completed my undergraduate studies and enjoying my free time. For those of you who don’t know, let me tell you that I had real hard time completing my studies. Its not bcoz i dont study or am poor in my work and all. For some reason, I had a very bad luck in the phaze of life called “literacy”.  I won’t term it as ‘education’…. coz even in this bad luck i learned alot which will surely help in my future life.

After completing my higher secondary classes, i decided to follow my decision rather than my parents and my family’s. I left my hometown for higher studies and joined a elite university in a place where i never wanted to go. But i went there coz that was the only university which was offering my kind of course. Not to mention i made marvelous friends there and i was really really good in studies there. Infact, i even came 3rd in my college (national level) once. But time had its own decision. The Supreme Court ordered the university to shut down fr some lengthy reason i cannot mention here.

I had to stop my studies. My two years were wasted and not to mention all the amount of fees my parents paid went into dustbin. I was devastated. I wanted to study no more… not even a second of a minute. I had lost all faith from literacy, from system, from studies, from everything. But after too much of indirect force from my parents, i finally enrolled in a college which offered a little bit of same kind of course. I started again. But to my surprise, the new college was nightmare. Infact, i have no shame to say that even my coaching classes during my school days was far more advanced and well maintained than my present college. Being a media college, my present place didnt even have internet facility to provide to its students and that also being having their presence in Andheri, Mumbai… the financial capital of India.

Anyways, i never felt like studying. And every second of my presence in that college made my feeling deeper and stronger. AS my parents had wasted alot of money, and also bcoz of the social need of a educational degree certificate, i decided to stick on somehow and complete my studies. But i was never serious in my studies. Not even a single day of the three years. I had no interest left in studies. But somehow i always got good marks in exams.

I was not the topper of the class, but surely the topper among boys. You can blame it on the poor marking system of the university or may be my luck, or may be my intelligent brain, or may be my loved ones’ prayers for me. Instead of studying the literary part, i spent my time in enjoying, and learning the hard faces of life’s reality. I stayed on my own, faced people, had debts, cleared debts, helped my friends, took help from my friends and so much to mention that the books or notes would anytime fail to teach you.

Anyways, somehow after long three boring years, i completed my studies from my college. I gave my final year exams and waiting for my results. Hopefully, i’ll pass in all subjects, unless the college people won’t play any tricks with my marks. As soon as my studies got completed, everyone near me started asking me whats my future plan, what i m going to do, etc etc. And i had nothing concrete to answer them. I had mixed or multiple answers.

Listening to my two or more replies to those questions, everyone told me that I am not firm with myself and my decisions. They were saying that I am not serious with life and I havnt taken any concrete decision in regards with my future. I was getting de-moralized with such comments from my friends and family members. I was really worried if something is wrong with me or is it that no one is trying to understand me.

This thing was really bothering me. Recently, i had a talk with one of my friend about this matter and as we were advancing on this topic, i learned its neither my problem nor is it that no one is trying to understand me. I learned that I am like a bird that had been caged for a long time and suddenly the bird found the cage door open and flew away in the open world.

A bird, that was kept in a cage since no one knows. That bird doesnt know anything about the outside world. That bird doesnt know how it feels to find food in winter and in summer. That bird doesnt know what its like taking a free fly into the sky. It just knows how it feels to be inside the cage. And may be the bird even know the number of bars, the cage is made of. And one day, this bird found the door of the cage open. Not exactly attracted to freedom, but with an excitement of knowing how the world is outside the cage, the bird, without losing even a single moment, with full spread of wings, flew away from the cage into the open blue.

The bird has left the cage far behind and it doesnt know the way back. This bird is in open world now. It doesnt know where to find food, it doesnt know where to hide itself from cold breeze of winter and hot climate of summer, it doesnt know whether to trust other birds or whether to just fly alone. It simply doesnt know what to do outside there.

I feel like the same caged bird that’s just been freed. I simply dont know what to do outside there. But it is sure that the bird sooner or later will learn places to find food, it will know where to go in winters and in summers, it will learn whether to fly with same feathered birds or whether to explore the sky alone. And so will I.

And trust me…. this bird will surely make everyone feel that its decision of getting out of the cage, whether out of emergency, excitement, or oppurtunity, was worth and the best. The bird just has to make sure that it makes each and every moment of its life outside the cage valuable as much as it lost being inside the cage. The bird just needs time to earn that value. And it will.
After all, its a bird, a creature born to fly, fly high, high in the sky.