Its amazing how monitored ragging can positively effect your personality. In a few days you find yourself transformed into someone you always wnated to be but were hesitant. Instead on relying on the others, you now start to believe in yourself.
Being an engineering student and staying in an hostel, it is no secret that I have had to undergo ragging, or rather the politically correct term being used ‘orientation period‘ or OP. Fortunately though, we have the OP in our second year as compared to the first years else where. The first years are more vulnerable. But when you are in the second year, having already spent an year in the campus gives you a lot of confidence to face anything thrown at youself. Also to quell your fears regarding OP, let me mention that the OP is conducted in a very controlled manner and within restrictions. The sole purpose of OP is to gel with batchmates and instill a sense of belonging to a particular hostel.
But then this post is not about OP. Its more about how a few days of OP can change you forever.
Earlier I was this shy, introverted guy. I hardly used to talk to anyone. I remember back in the school days, I was to be interviewed by a lady from Times of India. She introduced herself and started by asking me to tell her something about myself. I went blank. After staring helplessly at people around myself, I replied, “Could you please be more specific. What do you want to know about me?” When asked to introduce myself, I couldn’t come up with anything.
Well, ask me the same question now, and I’ll go on for quite some time about who I am and what I like, well, depending on how interested I feel you are. Moreover, earlier I used to avoid any contact with strangers, would leave a conversation hanging dead, and got lost touch with almost everyone from school.
All this changed after my second year. I am now trying to get back in touch with everyone. I do not feel the need to make new friends ‘coz I have too many good ones, but talking to a stranger does not bother me now. Back at home, I now socialize. Earlier I made it a point to avoid any party or social gathering, but now I am like bring-it-on, lets meet people.
The change though was slow to come about in my case. I still have this tendency of reverting back to the old habit of isolation. But there is always a constant effort on my behalf to change myself, to make myself more presentable. It is for the same reason that I love the sitcom Dexter. Its all about how you want people to look at you, and I’ll get there some day, sooner than later.
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