Write about a defining moment in your life when you were forced to grow up in an instant(or Instants).
After spending two years in the local college in Comilla my hometown in Bangladesh. I suddenly realized I was too unhappy to continue my education in the same college.I must look for a different one, a girl’s college, but the only one I could go to was in the big city.
I packed my things and traveled by train at 3 AM in the morning to Dhaka, in Bangladesh. When I reached the college and met some of my classmates in the college dormitory, I realized instantly it was my time to grow up.
Mom and my siblings won’t be there to complain or talk about my new classmates, good or bad, I’d have to, ‘grin and bear it’ I had some help from a friend of my parents who lived in the same city, who did more than I could ask from a real uncle.
He invited me to go to his house every week-end. I was slowly getting used to living far away from my home. This is where my process of growing up was happening. Occasionally I felt a twinge of pain, I tried to overcome it by starting a conversation with my uncle or the classmates in college whoever happened to be there at that time, but it was persistent, I tried to fight it off by concentrating on stories my classmates used to tell me, but it was not easy.
The only antidote for my pain were the songs I learned in school when I was in third standard, in presentation convent school, I used to sit by myself and hum the tune. Those childhood memories took me to a world where I had the most fun.
I grew up but it was not easy.
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Sabethville 