In our book of thoughts, one must spend at least a year in a hostel to gain a lifetime experience and friends
Attending college in your hometown is enjoyable, but many are unaware of what they miss by not attending college away from home. Living in a hostel is one of the best things one can experience in life. Hostel life not only helps shape one’s character, personality, and future but also plays a crucial role in forming friendships that have the potential to last a lifetime.
This Friendship Day, take a look at some of the reasons why hostel friendships are for life. Perhaps this article will convince you to try hostel life if you haven’t already and still have the chance to do so.
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In a hostel, your financial background doesn’t matter. It does in case you are going to college for the elites, but if it is an affordable college, your background doesn’t matter. After all, you sleep on the same mattress as everyone else and eat the same food as others while dealing with late-night assignments. This is where struggle begins, but hostel life puts everybody on the same table, which helps us gel with each other easily and form strong bonds.
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Craving some snacks at midnight or caught by the traffic police for unintentionally breaking a signal in an unknown city? Your first call goes to your roommates, who bail you out of any situation. Students in a hostel go through multiple problems, ranging from emotional to financial. During such a phase, hostel friends take care of each other like family, creating a bond that becomes unbreakable.
Hostels bring people from different parts of the country with their own unique cultures, traditions, languages, foods, and so on. Therefore, students become curious when they encounter something unfamiliar. This curiosity leads to questions, and questions in turn lead to the exchange of information, traditions, and cultures, giving rise to friendships that transcend state and national borders. Take it from us—some of us have lived the hostel life, and we have picked up habits from friends hailing from other states.
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Hostel life is special for those who are single children and have mostly grown up alone. From sharing a bottle of cold drink to some OTP platform’s password, those who are single children often find a constant companion, an element of life that many single children often crave while growing up. In short, they get a brother or sister from another mother that they never had. Not to forget, it also helps a single child develop the habit of sharing, as many single children often grow up without this trait.
This Friendship Day, reach out to or meet the friends you made during your hostel life. Go through those crazy pictures that should never be seen by anybody else and recall pranks that kept the wardens on their toes.
