Life

"Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?

I see the way you're

Acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated

Life's like this, you

And you fall and you crawl

And you break and you take

What you get and you turn it into

Honesty Promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it.."

- Avril Lavigne (Complicated)

Been there, heard those age old clichés. Life is short, live it to the max. Life is a complicated puzzle, face an obstacle at every altitude to continue climbing still. We love to drum our feet whenever Avril croons "life's like this, and you fall and you crawl..promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it". Nevertheless, there's a whole lot of fun and awesomeness (quoting my all time fav., Barney Stinson) out there.

A regular example to start with, being an engineering student I have never imagined Life as a guitar whose strings we can strum all day long and still not worry about time. Everyday we have scores of  glitches to deal with, kicking off the momment we kick off our blankets much aggravated by the dolorous alarm clock. Cries of the water supply's suspension adds to the woes of not finding a single cubicle empty. If you can contain over 300 students in a single hostel, any consultant will charge you a hefty amount for advising you to add a few more bathrooms.

SMSes have become an integral part of a student's life. More on this later, but a particular forward exclaims, "Galileo invented the telescope, Bell invented the telephone..but who the hell invented studies, search for him. We students have to settle a score!" I empathize. Studies are incarnate to engineering students. But it calls for feelings of shrinking away for many my kind. Hours and hours of theory classes make way for neuralgia, and labs rheumatism for all. Comical, how despicable studies have become for us; they are associated with bodily flaws. The wicked Vivas invite further disdain from us. Professors who seem to be so ridiculous

in class suddenly become so scholarly and knowledgeable during viva. Eventually its us who cannot tackle the googlys and doosras of complex, out of the syllabus questions and sit forlorn seeing the B or C against our names. My catalogue of stuffs to do away with in college contains vivas and a lot more.

Thank God for free SMSes! Genuinely, this is one feature that has kept me alive during the taxing hours of my student life. Highly disparaged by my parents as an addiction, I have always had this notion of it being so much more safer than may be alcohol. If there was a championship for the fastest texter, I would for sure enlist myself as a worthy competitor. Hours and hours of exercising my fingers on the keypad exchanging parallel thoughts on cheating in exams, where to hang out the evening, whose assignment to be copied, number of hours online the last night and so forth has brought about this talent in me.

Facebook, thank you Mr. Zuckerberg, has to be the prime attention grabber for the contemporary student. Our life orbits around it. A satirical joke I read on a page spoke of a lady asking her maid the reason of her absence the past few days. The maid retorts updating her status on her Facebook page about her leave, and that it had even been liked and commented by the master! With the plethora of applications being uploaded everyday, the incident above might become a stark reality. We have pages which display our top (Facebook) friends and this often leads to the undisplayed friends being seriously offended. A status reads a fact or statistic and following the string of comment threads, we end up knowing what a particular girl had for dinner and when another was reaching home! Another idiosyncrasy I observed was gender discrimination on statuses. A girl was missing home and this was liked by more than a ton, with an equal number of sympathizing comments, "we are with you!", "don't worry dear i feel the same!" and the most infuriating

of all, "awwww!". The very same status by a guy had 2 likes, and a single comment, "abey bakwas karna band kar aur jaake exams ke liye padh!". Still this fails to deter us from updating something on our walls each day, liking whatever that comes our way, exercising our right to speech by commenting on every status or photo, the list goes on.

Hence life rolls on for us. A million thoughts flash in my mind throughout the course of every arduous day, and when I finally decide to call it a day, I tend to recapitulate on the events which concerned me. However a small setback is all that it takes to deter us from moving ahead with full steam. Therein lies the Secret, the Law of Attraction. Lets just uncomplicate life and see what miracles it holds for us. Bare necessities are the essence of a gratifying day. I, for once, realized how easy it is when recently, my dad was with me on his birthday, and both of us were away from home. Still, a surprisingly delicious and attractive birthday cake from me followed by the best Chinese meal money can buy made for a great birthday party. Smiles were abundant when this was discussed back home, but the most rewarding smile came from dad himself. People all around me get bowed down by hurdles, and these two words are all I have for them: Let's Uncomplicate, and see for yourself how the hurdle fades away. So until next time, I give you the following words without which I don't start my day (actually, its on a poster in my room, so literally!)

Go ahead. Take chances. Tell the truth. Date someone totally wrong for you. Say NO. Spend all your cash. Get to know some one random. Be random. Say I love you. Sing out loud. Laugh at stupid jokes. Cry. Apologize. Tell someone how much they mean to you. Tell a jerk what you think. Laugh until your stomach hurts. Regret nothing. Live LIFE!