It is truly said that life is a roller coaster ride...you never know what life holds for you...the future can be so unpredictable. Three months back..life gave me a challenge that hit me so hard that I was apprehensive about even trying to accept it. An opportunity that would have been considered as a "golden one" by thousands out there..held no meaning to m whatsoever. I'm talking about my admission at NIFT Bhubaneswar. The chance left me with mixed feelings...as I had never ever imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be drifted away to a place so far off...away from the "safe zone" I had created for myself in and around Bangalore and my hometown Ooty. Hardly having a choice of opting out because of the confidence of the ones I knew that I would make them proud...with great difficulty I settled on accepting the challenge life had given me.
A two day train ride..full of doubts and tears finally transported me to the city of Bhubaneswar. The day I first laid eyes on my supposedly new campus (the 25th of Jul.y), I knew I would never make it through the prescribed two years of my Masters programme. away from the city...situated in the small town of Jatni...the NIFT Bhubaneswar campus did very little to boost my confidence...though I have to admit that the feeling of being selected among a huge number of applicants aroused a sense of pride and the though of being capable of doing something...
The 26th of July marked the inaugration of the centre...where a meeting with the faculty and the Director imbibed a growing hope in me..that it would not all that hard probably...the 61 students..obviously all unknown to each other went out of their way to make each other feel comfortable...
Life since then has been great...and now three months later when its time for me to head back home and meet my old friends...m sure im gonna miss this place..the confidence that this chance has given me..the transformation i can feel going on inside is helping me turn into a better person...with a great career ahead of me...and most of all it has provided me with a chance to know and mingle with people whom i assumed i would never get along with...and now im the proud possessor of an amazing group of great people...my friends here at NIFT...
they are the ones who make my life bearable...and have helped me survived...
And today i'm glad that I took up the challenge...for otherwise I know I would have missed out on a one time and "golden opportunity"...
Pragya
