What matters to you?

When your best friend is conducting a psychology experiment and greets you with a “Hello, how do you do?”, you cannot help but hold back a laugh saying “Very well”. It’s true guys, a counsellor cannot counsel their friends. It’s the lack of seriousness, presence of a personal bond, and the natural bias towards your friend since you’re only able to listen to things from their perspective (or since they’re the focal asset in pysch words (am I right?)). A counsellor can only advice, and be a rational friend at the most. But participating in Aditi’s pysch experiments was one of the most amusing experince I have shared with her.

On the other hand, I think I am in love with the Xavier’s Library. Don’t think I’m the first one either. It’s beautiful. Gives you the vintage feel from the British Era with books you’ve only seen to look like that in movies, the old doors that leave the top and bottom open which can be pushed lead us into different cubicles on the side, and you can find all kinds of students sitting in the library. The reference books section has books on every topic you can think of, and the place is so magical, if I was studying at Xaviers, the library would probably be my safe haven. If it wasn’t obvious already, I can’t get over it.

It’s just the college. They call a bunch of trees the Woods, and the Indian Music Room is the only one that has an air conditioner since it is sponsored by Britannica – not even the Principal’s cabin has one. There are staircases that only fit two people and spiral upwards which are really cool. Not to mention all the happy faces, coloured hair, vibrant personalities – people sitting in lectures and actually paying close attention to what the teachers are saying. You find people alone, people in groups discussing math questions, and people sitting randomly in the campus chilling in the break. Even though I was an outsider, I didn’t feel lonely.

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Today has just been an overwhelming day. I found this draft written by me on 26th September 2014.

“In a universe so big, the earth is nothing but a pale blue dot. Just from a galaxy away, you might not even realise that we even exist. And there are millions of galaxies. There are gazillion planets and infinite stars. So yes, our solar system is like our mini-infinity. In this mini infinity, there are so many things we never procrastinate about (unless we have to study or work because that's the perfect time for all of us to wonder about every aspect of life) For instance, every glance in the darkness shows you the past. If the sun decides to disappear one day, you'll realise it took that decision eight minutes later. The star you see millions of light years away looked like that millions of light years ago. You'll never know how it looks like at the moment.
^But does this matter?
Today, I'll ask you the question every student applying to Stanford will be answering this year. What matters to you?”

Two things:
1. In 2014, I knew what question every student applying to Stanford would be answering, and now I don’t.
2. I'm still not sure about what matters.

Those amusing moments spent with your friends, the solace in a library, and feeling-in-place in a strange place – they’re just the smaller things that keep you going as you work towards the bigger things that matter.

So today, I'll still ask you the same question. What matters to you?

Always providing food for thought for the hungry,
Kanksha

P.S.: Did you know that ツ is the Katakana letter tu?
(Yeah, I know. Doesn't matter.)