i want to break free

As it turns out most of the changes that occured were not in the academic sphere , my experience at IIM L changed me as a person !!. I can't help but think of me as a guy who had been kept on life support system all his life (cared for and pampered) by his parents. Until I came to lucknow I had no Idea that life could be so difficult. I remember my father used to say, "Shobha (my mother) you are turning the kids into stuffed toys, and they will have a very hard time the day they have to live on their own". Like all mom's my mom used to say "I got just 2 kids and I want to leave no stone unturned in their upbringing , I don't want to be like Aai (my grandmother) who sent her kids to a hostel and all they remember of her are the holidays they spent together". It seemed she was right.
Before I came here I was a mama’s boy who had been wrapped in cotton and pampered for almost 21 years, comparable to a Drone in a Bee-hive. But fortunately things were set to change, the first week at IIM L seemed to be like a adventure or a tour, where I was all by myself taking care of all my needs etc, but its only when the acads kick in that one realizes “Boy you are in Hot soup now!!”. Suddenly you wake up one morning and find that your room is filled with filth and you can’t take a bath just because you forgot to wash your stock of underwear , that leaves you with 2 options “skip the bath or wash the clothes and then use them”, as usual the first option seems more feasible, so after a couple of days you realize that its been 4 days since your body had the last contact with water to add to the matter you smell like a garbage can . Soon reality starts kicking in and you realize that how beautiful, life was back at home. Then the grind kicks in and the work starts cranking up, by now you have lost all hope in yourself and the acads keep piling up, leaving you with no option but to start working longer and longer hours to keep up.
After you are through with the first term you get used to working, having a bath once in 3 days, cleaning your room once a week, getting your laundry on time. Its only when the term breaks arrive that you realize how much you have changed. Everything you do is different no longer you leave your plate on the table after a meal, no longer do you leave the wet towel on the bed expecting the maid to the work , though it seems routine to you your parents do notice the difference, and this difference bridges the way to living all by yourself (independent).

a pic of me after week 1 at IIM HelL

a pic of my hostel room after week 1