Campus like a jungle is where all kinds (think of any sort of person, pleasant or not) collide. And just like boarding school, we’re expected to meet and make new friends. But some people are just born to be unlikeable.
No matter how hard you try, you cannot understand them nor bear to live with them but it is our duty that we love our neighbors as ourselves.
Every student knows how it feels to get stuck with a difficult person. This is however subjective as everyone was born and raised to have different tolerance levels. It can get exhaustingand downright unbearable!
But it is a new year and school has resumed (some others are yet to do so) and I believe it is almost every student’s resolution to have a good time this semester and have better relations with roommates and colleagues this year.
Everyone is unique and so we need to always have that in mind. The fact that you take your bath daily doesn’t your mate was raised that way (just saying). So if someone you happen to share space with does have certain bad habits, it may be up to you to help change that. And pointing it out bluntly would not help, it might rather make it worse just to spite you.
Do what you know how to do best and help your mate out with things he/she finds it hard to do. Sooner or later, he/she will pick up and will always have you to thank for that. Be a good listener and be patient. Living with people is unescapable but it was never meant to be easy.
This semester would be the last for some of us, others have a couple more to go but we may never meet the people we know on campus again or at least for quite some time. So if there’s any life you know you can impact, the time is now.
And for those of us who deliberately make life unbearable for our roommates, please have mercy and bring it down a notch. Everyone is someone’s ward, someone’s precious prince and princess. Not everyone comes from a well-to-do home but everyone is worth respecting.
Have a happy, fulfilling, life-changing semester!
