{"id":450,"date":"2017-05-13T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2019-11-19T07:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T07:03:45","slug":"well-be-fine-by-niall-histic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/2017\/05\/13\/well-be-fine-by-niall-histic\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll Be Fine &#8211; By Niall Histic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_osj4kdsavz1un32nx_1280-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"451\" data-link=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?attachment_id=451\" class=\"wp-image-451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_osj4kdsavz1un32nx_1280-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_osj4kdsavz1un32nx_1280-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_osj4kdsavz1un32nx_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the fifth 9 AM lecture I\u2019ve missed in a row. Should you be worried? Is this another one of those depression induced lay-ins? Or is it just another late night of listening to indie rock and playing Cards Against Humanity? You saw me last night, I seemed to be alright, my smiles were genuine, my laughter not forced. So you go for class, deciding to worry only if there\u2019s a more concrete sign of me hitting a downward spiral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After our first year living together, we decide to continue with the bed assignments we were given. You were A, I was C and our lovely little child of a roommate was B. We love B regardless. Regardless of her mood swings when it\u2019s exam season, regardless of her constantly smelling of coconut oil (Mallus, I tell you) and regardless of the crazy dance parties she has all by herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A, B and C. We\u2019re closer than you or I could have ever imagined. This random room allotment makes me believe in the idea of fate, the idea that the universe does plan some things out. There\u2019s a bigger picture, but at the corner of the bigger picture if you zoom in enough you see the three of us, standing shoulder to shoulder. Almost touching, but not quite because none of us are physically affectionate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, our idea of affection is asking if you\u2019ve eaten and if you haven\u2019t I\u2019m going to make you a sandwich anyway. Our idea of affection is to fill all our water bottles from the water cooler when one of us goes. Our idea of affection is to save a bite of that Chilli Paneer roll we all like. To call from the convenience store and say, \u201cHey, there\u2019s Orange Lays, d&#8217;you want 7 packets or 10?\u201d Our idea is to just look across from Bed A or B or C. That one look is enough to assure me that if there\u2019s anything that\u2019s gone wrong, I can climb up to your bed (still got bunk beds, unfortunately enough) and just sit next to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live miles away from home. I\u2019ve got so much to miss from back home, movie nights with my father, baking with my mother and good ol\u2019 fighting with my brother. I should miss home so much. I should miss it every second, every day. But I don\u2019t, because I have home right here. No, it isn\u2019t my posters that make it home or even all the cookies my mum\u2019s sent. It\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you, my dear A and B. It\u2019s you, with our movie nights and our Maggi experiments and our fighting. I could call you my sisters but that\u2019s not quite it. I could call you my best friends, but that\u2019s not quite it, either. You\u2019re my roommates, because to me roommates holds more significance, a different kind of significance, than I could ever have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So no, don\u2019t worry about me. Because I have you and as long as I have you, I\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be fine.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fifth 9 AM lecture I\u2019ve missed in a row. Should you be worried? Is this another one of those depression induced lay-ins? Or is it just another late night of listening to indie rock and playing Cards Against Humanity? 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