Every since I joined college, people around me had been saying I have chosen the wrong course and what bothers me most is how they point at me and start laughing at me.
I know taking up B.Sc life science is no joke (the most busiest course out here in Sherubtse college) and especially to a person like me who is one lazy ass. This course needs students who are hardworking and dedicated, which I suppose I don't ffulfill either. And so I decided to join this course because of my interest in biology(my dream was to study medicine, which I couldn't) . Nevertheless I was here, studying about botany and zoology. The thing is I have this craze for writing journals, scribbling down my thoughts, writing articles, poems and love being philosophical when it comes to life.
"You need to be logical being a science student",a friend of mine would say and "stop acting like a language student", the other would say giggling. I would be most of the time sarcastically humiliated. But that was not the problem, what bothered me was how easily people judged one another and how it was easier to make fun of someone's dreams and aspirations.
Yes, I love writing and yes I am a science student and I don't see any loopholes in here at all. Its my second year into college and still I am being told of having made the wrong choice. I have stopped giving spaces to those ill thoughts. Because somewhere I feel that , dreaming along the journey of ones life is something. Its like you get to know the more of you as you go in search of your unnamed dreams. I have always believed in having one's thoughts broader, in learning just everything, in being the odd one, believed in being the crazy one, believed in flowing against the current of life. I have always believed in those stuffs. Every since I joined college, I came with the notion not just to learn about my course but to explore beyond that. Knowledge ain't just in the four walls of classrooms, its beyond that. There is more to life out there if you look close enough.
Being a science student and having passion for writing has nothing to do with each other. I won't regret of getting a job be it in a science field or in media field. I would love them both.
Just because some have passion of writing journals and all, doesn't make her the odd one as a science student and even if it does, I am proud to be called the odd one.
Its just that, this passion for writing journals was there in me since the beginning of my nursery school days . This passion of mine, has kept me sane for all this time, if it weren't for this so-called writing and scribbling down my thoughts, I would be one 'death soul" walking on this earth. I have always taken refuge in it, and it has always kept me safe and sounds. I have diaries recorded from 2007 and I still have. Its this bunch of write-ups that has my stories and memories stored, locked safely in the pages of my writings. In nutshell, it has kept me alive and made me stronger. My passion for writing just keeps on growing ..and there's no halt. Cheers to happy, sad, exciting, philosophical, emotional, lost, confuse mode of writings!!!
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ReplyDeleteLol...not here please...sonam :p
DeleteSorry..haha..
DeleteBeautiful one.
ReplyDeleteThank you.. :) means alot !!
DeleteAnd I am an engineering graduate and you can see where writing has brought me. Writing is not a prerogative of literature students. It is a place to drop your thoughts, mind and above all your heart. If you FEEL, you can WRITE. Besides, if you want to write well, you have to feel - feel strongly.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck and keep writing.
Dorji Wangchuk (Prof)
Media Studies
Just something I needed ..Sir.
DeleteThank you Sir. I wish to write my whole life. If writing be a brand of herione.. So be it :)
Being a writer doesnot mean that you cannot be science.
ReplyDeleteI graduateted from the same college wit Bio-Chemistry under Delhi University curriculum.
I used to since I was in school n still write though I m never a gud writer.
This has added to qualification n helped me a lot since I joined the service. I was fortunate that I not only got number of awards in writing but also able to publish number of articles even in some international journal. Thanks to writing habit.
You shud continue the habit no matter what others tell you.
You cud follow me
http://paropsonam.blogspot.com/?m=1
Thank you sir...indeed am glad to receive encouraging comments .. :)
ReplyDeleteCheers to the never ending never dying thirst for writing..
I am planning to stick with it for the rest of my life :)
Happy writing and happy blogging to us!!
Aww... I know EXACTLY how you feel Popcorn!! You know how much i LOVE reading and writing. And when i decided to take Science, people (teachers included!) started telling me it's a wrong choice (maybe it was. i nearly flunked!) But then they were making my life hellish! Telling this, and that. Making up stories like, Her parents forced her to take science when she insisted to take Arts.. I mean, Hello??? It was MY decision to take science! My parents had nothing to do with it. They support me, not force me into doing something i don't want to. But did i stop daydreaming and writing? Ha! Fat chance. And even though i really wanted to learn literature, i got Political Science course, But will that stop me from aspiring to be a writer? Dream on! That's NOT happening! I've also already decided that after my degree in Pol Sc, I'm gonna do Master in Eng. I know that I can. And I will! Don't listen to people who make you waver from your quest, Popcorn. You can! We all can. <3 <3 I miss you... :) n My love to who ever is Sonam Yoezer... ;)
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DeleteAwww..thank you pop cake and hey are u coming here to sherubtse?? If so. A hearty congratulation to you and yes..keep dreaming... Don't let the words of other ppl bug you okai..and yes Sonam Yoezer is your brother in-law...more detaily your Ata Dawa will tell you. Until then ..cheers to writing and the passion for it!! ^•^
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