Where life begins..

Isn't it strange to you? The speed at which you transform from a notorious student to this huge, mentally exhausted adult. A lot on the struggles, the hustle and the bustle. Let's cherish the golden treasure that life offers in the most beautiful manner!

While it's easy to walk through life's challenges and interviews today, there was probably a time when you were scared to walk late in your own premises. Your school! How fast you ran while handling a bag with more than ten books. And there you reached, not to the destination but under the shadow of your teacher, nicely giving late remarks. Pretty sure, you were not sad if you had few people around you. That made you feel that you're not the only one. Phew! That's how things work. Today you might enjoy the dark nights but there was a time when you waited for the bright morning just to kick the day with oh so oily hair, neat tie, identity card and the forgotten homework!

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School - not sure if you remember it as a place. For, every school is a closed book of joyous memories. Memories that you not only store but probably revisit as and when you smell fresh books, as and when you look at your certificates, as and when you look at photographs taken in the phone, that was not allowed!

While your 9 to 5 job bothers you, there was this child within you, jumping to wake up at 6:30. For what? A picnic! While you had never seen a rising sun, your early days in the primary made you feel proud only for waking up with the sun. Do you remember choosing your best friend to sit besides you? Do you remember how your school offered you ample of instructions while your eyes were at those delicious snacks? Weren't you curious to put your hand out of the window just because it was not allowed? Surely, you were! 

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How those prayers at the beginning of the trip instilled a feeling that it's gonna be the best trip. How the bus was full but the brat within you awaited to stand right in the middle of the bus to jam with your buddies. How throwing waste out the window seemed to be a crime. How the journey made you happy only because your bus was leading from the other division. How that one small packet of biscuit looked like a million dollar gift from the tour guide. How that announcement where students from your school were called at the lunch area made you feel precious; you showcased all your charm in front of students from other schools, you didn't even know. How you fell, complained, cried or troubled everyone around. How you never wanted the journey to end and how loudly you cheered your school's jingle, as soon as tyre of the bus touched the soil of your school ground. These are not mere moments, rather packages that burst happiness.

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While today, large french fries with a burger would be your everyday choice but let's wonder at the time when Vada Pav from your school canteen was a luxurious meal! As the recess approached, your window could smell the fragrance of hot oil and you silently removed a ten rupee note to rush towards the canteen. The bell rang and your shoes rushed towards your friend's bench. You shared your home, your tiffin! It was similar to a multi cuisine restaurant; experiencing food dishes from various cultures. At times, you enjoyed the fusion of onions, tomatoes and the sour lemon, sprinkled over the delicious bhel! This story never ended, post school, you did savour the sour mangoes, tamarind and the famous idli. No fork, no spoon yet disciplined enough.

As every morning, you remembered lord, you never forgot to open your eye in between the prayer to gaze at that person. Who? You already know it! Your school crush. Names would be many in your mind but you were cute enough to believe in some kind of forever love. Happy that, the reminder makes you smile! This person might have to do nothing with you but you had butterflies even when you spotted a heart diagram in your science textbook.

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Your heart has stored more than million memories from school. Your first ever lie in front of your teacher, time pass your buddies at the toilet, borrowing money for a dish priced higher than Vada Pav, waiting post school hours for projects, being the favorite student, being the most famous brat, stealing chalks, faking the parents' signature, avoiding sports, being around the campus when only sent for a duster, sitting in the library to only look at pictures and not read and enjoying the air-conditioner in the computer class. Being amazed at chemicals in the science laboratory, making charts and submitting files, fighting and complaining, rhythmically banging benches, attending open house to attending the long tours, competing with the class to crying on each other's shoulders, that's how school life is!

While life might teach you uninvited lessons, remember how you overcame each challenge, each difficulty and each emotional loss when your black shoes were running in the corridors of your school. Your answer lies in how strongly you were nurtured in the books of your school! You are what you were back then!

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Riya Jogi

Specially dedicated to my entire batch and teachers!