Lessons Learnt In University: #3

#3: Home sweet home, yes, but you make new homes as you go.

Before entering university I always wondered this: How on earth would I be able to sleep well at night if my bed's not coming with me???!!!


Ah yes, as always, my greatest concern was whether my sleep will be of good quality. 

I fretted over this unceasingly. "My risk of dying will increase by 50% if I can't sleep well!", "I'll fail all my exams for sure!". I mulled over these self-invented facts for days at end until I realized that I can bring my darling pillows and blanket with me, and maybe that will be good enough. Sambil menyarung pillowcase yang baru, saya merasa senang hati dan bijak.. My sleep will be gold.


But I forgot to take into account that I won't be living at university every single day of the year, that I'll come home on weekends.. And so I suffered during my first weekend home, akibat terlalu egoistik untuk berjalan sambil membawa bantal kesayangan dari bilik hingga ke pagar utama UIA. Saya juga mempunyai air muka, tak hendak ditertawakan..


Why am I talking about this again? Adakah ini tak berkaitan dengan pengajaran nombor 3?


Tidak, ada kaitannya. What am I trying to say is, when you first had to leave home for someplace new, it'll be hard. Everything will feel foreign. Alien. Kalau sebelum ni dekat rumah tidur atas single bed, sekarang kena guna bunk bed. We'll have to use things that we may have not chosen for ourselves. We'll have to make the best, of the things given to us. But we can adapt. Those things that felt foreign at first, will eventually feel like ours. We will grow to love 'em, and life at the new place will be as instinctive as life at home. Kalau dulu gayat bebeno naik tangga juga susah, sekarang mamai-mamai pun boleh turun bunk bed tingkat atas. Rilek je.


The key is to bring along something (portable) that will always mean "home" to you. In my case, "home" would be my bedstuff, but I admit, they're not very portable.. I had to leave one of my pillows and blanket behind and THAT IS SAD. Okay sebelum saya distracted lagi let's wrap up the lesson..


We can't stick to one place forever. We will make new homes, for that is inevitable. Make happy memories, live hard laugh hard love hard in places here and there, near and far.. And those places will be where your roots are. Going to one place or another, you'll always be happy. Because you're always home. :-)


P.S. I miss CFS IIUM so much..