Once there was a time when you were a student, I am not talking about people in their PG courses. When we all are in school or atmost a undergraduate college. Life is fun, no worry no hurry just going on, taking a not so known path.Yet we know that its heading upwards, the right direction as most of us would have wanted it to be. Then comes the time when you step into the corporate world. I dont know what others went through I'll write what has happened with me till now, rather i will try and put down in phases how have events taken place from the time i used to piss in my nappies...
9th june 1982 I thought of taking avtar my mom and dad thought it was a wonderful day but they did'nt realize what they will go through after this momentary joy. The ,then not so young people, now tell me i was real good looking the typical gol-mol bacha and everybody would want to play with me. That is the golden time when you only need to cry to get anything.
The first signs of my weirdness, people usually suckle their right thumb but i was different, sucking my toes. Secondly, never stopped crying, during one of my bua's marriage, i i was given sleeping pills as soon as i woke up so that all can continue to work ab junta kehti hai nasha kyon karte ho, arre bachpan main gharwalon ne adat dal di ab kaise chod dein.
Thoda bada hua about school age 3yrs went to Three dots school, again problem only thing I did in class, sleep and snore. Very difficult to pass in the lower classes. Then one day god thought ab iska time aa gaya (jaane ka nahin re , sudharne ka). Chacha chaudhary ke mafiq mere pitaji ki dimag ka bulb jal gaya, bole Dehradun main padoge. Maine socha maan ki mataji ki mar se bachna hai to haan kar do, bas poori mundi hila di, gale lag gaya pitaji ke jaise ki unhone bal-vivah ki soochna de di ho.
Second phase shuru hua "Col.Brown School" Dehradun, boarding tha. All the good things that any of you find whenever we meet, all courtsey my alma mater, the wonderful teachers rather mentors. I am the way I am because there my personality was moulded to be like this. Full masti , sports , extra-curriculars not much studies. They emphasised on extra-currics more, I was good at dramatics, debates any oration, music, painting learnt it all, an average sportsperson and good at studies. People knew me(either good or bad) but lots of them could make out Gaurav ( rather kaddu as they called me) from the crowd. Things are not that good as they look, you know Geminis have a dual personality. The twin side surfaced when I stabbed a compass right into the stomach of a guy in a fit of anger. Fortunately, the guy did not end up with serious injuries , he was so fat the force was not enought to let the compass penetrate very deep. But I was bashed severly, I thought saale ka kuch hua nahin meri lag gayi, yeh bhi koi baat hai.
Boarders get a severe thrashing, murga bana kar hockey se on your bum and many other innovative ways not to be written here. Life was ultimate fun. Till 7th std. I was there then I took a shift to Delhi ( I still think that was not a good decision, it did have its pros and cons yet ..)
1 comment:
Nice post. While showing the fun that all of us have in school, it also highlights the tough life in a primary school. Pitai khana, murga banna or utthak baithak are very regular. My Hindi and Maths teacher used 5 words very regularily to me: "Tina, chalo murga ban jao". And my English teacher used to slap students. The other used uthak-baithak, kaan pakro, kneel-down and raising hands for the whole period.
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