Nostalgia…

School life is not complete without a few things which aren’t given much thought. What you ask? lazily watching someone trip and fall, absentmindedly watching someone get blasted by teachers, impishly watching teachers redoing their makeup, gleefully watching tennis balls land in the swimming pool, merrily watching the football shatter something, nonchalantly watching students knocking down dustbins and walking off without much concern, indolently watching students elbowing each other to get to the canteen…much more. Only in those last few days will you notice such things and give thought to it. Only when you enter college will you notice that instead of asking “what’s the next period?” you ask “what’s next hour?”, instead of saying, “when are the next exams?” you ask “ when are the semesters?”. School life is irreplaceable. School is where you find the teachers on the brink of madness, over-enthusiastic students, mismatched socks, illegal usage of mobiles in the washroom, girls teasing boys, boys teasing girls, boys having fist fights, girls having cat fights, getting caught in the assembly for unpolished shoes, teachers barking at you to pull your tie knot up, hunting for lost ID cards, scribbling on desks and if that’s not bad enough; scribbling on the washroom walls and classroom walls, and writing stuff like “A boy was here” in the girls washroom….and some more madness that only the perpetrator can explain!
School is where you can find the students innocently walking down the corridor when a teacher suddenly pounces on them without warning and barks “pull your socks up!”, or “Where are your ribbons?!”.
It’s the temple of education. Education in various fields, like, how to copy in exams, how to read the wrong kind of books, how to make paper rockets, how to write anonymous notes and the likes. It’s a student’s second home, where you find the teachers stuffing the seeds of knowledge into the heads of largely unwilling subjects, where the school nurses have to pin you down to apply ointment on your wound, where your friends become an essential part of your life. School is where you learn the basic survival techniques for the future, it’s a place filled with people who are better than you or worse than you in something, a place which enhances your skills, talents, a place which helps you discover your talents, develops new ones. School is where you find 17yr olds being reduced from the role of a student to a psychologist, counselor, nurse, sister, mother etc., a place where you find boxing matches in the classrooms, a cricket match with spectators in the classrooms, a place where you find a ‘big fight’ (lame debates like, “Dravid is cuter that Ganguly.”) taking place.
School takes a good 14 years of a person’s life. In those 14 yrs, we learn, how to spell, count, write, talk, read, sing, socialize, forge signatures, respect elders (though, you can see a decline in that nowadays), values, how to think and the most of all, you learn to Live.

 Here’s to you School life. Cheers!!