Absence diminishes small passions but excites great ones just as wind extinguishes a candle but fans a fire.
This is best understood in the days when one is fresh out of school.With smile on their faces but anguish in their hearts, these students make themselves ready to tackle the harsh life of college. After the first lovely and memorable phase of their life, comes the next “college” phase which reminds them that along with roses comes the thorns and why the sentence “life is not a bed of roses” adorned the school quotation board.The inevitable happens and as a result these college-goers adopt a new mantra of life:- “East or west, school life was the best.”
The corridor cacophony, the musical sound of the sound bell interrupting always at the right moment, the creative fabulists of class, the exotic merry making indulged in on announcement of somebody’s birthday, the unnerving “exam fever” afflatus sending them all to their books, the elders’ constant harangue for excellence in performance have all faded into oblivion . Can the students ever forget the sublime pleasure on seeing a substitute teacher, the silent but unanimous last ten minute countdown chant to the ringing of the school bell, the gimmicks adopted to escape teacher’s fury, the “Oscar-winning” cough to hide an unbadged sweater, the you-blink-and-you-miss it change in attitude on seeing the Principal, the “watchful” monitor who was always on the lookout of the approaching teacher and never the students, the umpteen number of alterations on a single label, the nano second transformation of a maths copy to a physics one, the straight faced promises of homework submission(tomorrow ma’am positively) to a teacher, the sly glances exchanged when a teacher committed an error and of course the endless sighs in a long and boring assembly accompanied with dramatic acts of fainting?
Never again will these students try to break down the school management machinery by trying out new escapades and contemporary fashion statements in their school uniforms.Such is the richness of school life that students pass on these tidbits of memoralabia to their college friends.What ecstasy! What rapture! The kind of excitement in junior boys playing the Cupid, carrying Shakespeare quoted Billet-doux from trendy Romeos to chic Juliets…., in school ties being used as national accomplices in chit hiding…,in the peculiarities of teacher assessed as eccentricities by self annunciated education “Google gurus”.., in the rules of the school stretched ad lib to accommodate the needs of creative students,..the exquisite bravura on display in class when asked to submit homework copies.., all are reminiscent of some great days in school.
Dei Gratia! I had some lovely school days.
Aparajita Tripathi
CMS GN(2003) batch
7 comments:
"Absence diminishes small passions but excites great ones just as wind extinguishes a candle but fans a fire."
Just one word - Awesome.......
Lovely post dear :)
I have seen you speak very enthusiastically and emotionally about your school and school life. This post certainly reverberates the love you have for your school.
I somehow never miss my school. The only thing I miss very badly these days is my old organization and being around great friends like you.
School days are certainly special and that is why I do not agree with the title of the post. The title of the post gives a sense of hoplessness whereas my school memories only leave a smile on my face. I am sure it would be same for you.
Hi, Thanks for all your comments.
Anand, this line is not original, its a quote i picked up from somehwhere :)
But thanks for appreciating the post.
Varun,
Even i miss being people like you who are just so "Awesome"
Chandan,
the Title was meant more in the manner of "The feeling of nostalgia hopelessly keeps revisiting me:"
Nevertheless, my School days were Awesome!!!
Transported!
Transported down to my very own school days! Great work... helps so many of nostalgic erstwhile-´schoolkids´ like me relive the best days of his life.
Thank You, thank you for providing such a lively description and such mature understanding of the tiniest of facets of school-life which all of us miss, but never quite manage to put a finger at. Nicely narrated.WOW!
nice post! i toopassed out of my college recently and the nostalgia kills me sometimes. infact i started blogging only in that mood. chk it out when u r free. http://apensievetoofull.blogspot.com/2008/07/ex-bitsian.html
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