School

Why go to school?
It’s so uncool...
But once past the rusty gates
Memories remain whate’er our fates…


I’m home for the holidays from college and was listening to my sister and cousins talk about school…

They hate school, principal is “ a liar and partial”, the good teachers are leaving,the rest are stupid, they teach too much, they don’t teach anything, there are too many tests, classmates are !#@$@# and so on and so forth.

Nowadays when I think of school I have these memories of good friends, playing games in the recess, great teachers, wonderful canteen and things like that.

So I took a moment to think about my school days from their perspective. And they were right; I used to think in the exact same way! I think all of us do. There is a radical shift in our thinking when we refer to our schooldays long past.

I took a trip back memory lane to see when my thoughts of school went all rosy.

First Year of College: I’m happy I left school and am in college even though I greatly resent the ragging.

Second Year: Not yet missing it but sometimes like to talk about old days when friends from school call.

Third Year: Kind of missing school, the structured life, the attentive teachers and so on...

Final Year: When overburdened by adult pressures, sometimes wish I were in school again, so much further from the insecurity of an adult life, so much closer to the innocent friendships and all the hilarious and exciting times we had. (Was it actually like that?!? it seems so now.). All friends from school want to know what’s happening out there and I recently talked to a senior who even wanted to join the Alumni Club!! Everybody who is on Orkut is on our school community!!

It seems the human memory has the habit of paring down the past to only the good moments, leaving the bitter moments on wayside so that they may not scar our hearts for ever. Only the worst of the memories, the deepest scars are left, softened through the years, like running water smoothes out a stone.

Another couple of years and I’ll be practically in love with my school days!!!



P.S.: The poem like something at the beginning of the post is an experiment. I saw 4 excellent lines preceding the post on somebody’s blog and wanted to try it out… Mine are not great but still they are mine !!

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