My School

It is really very nostalgic for me to come back to this place, my school! There are thousands of memories attached to this place that I would relish all through my life. More than memories, there are emotions. Pure emotions. Emotions of pure friendship, pure love, pure respect and pure innocence.

The memories that I what to relive are not of coming first in my class, or of getting the award for being the best student. The memories that are of the most value to me are of those 30 minutes during the Recess every day, or of those few minutes spent in gossiping in whispers in the middle of the class. Really, life is a lot more about achievements! In fact, life is not at all about achieving medals and glory. Life is indeed about loving. Enjoying the moment. Life is about simplicity, about purity, about innocence.

It has been a long time since I left my school. Many things have changed now. For the society my life has become a lot better, but I know, it is a lot worse. As I climbed the stairs higher and higher the more I felt my happiness dwindling down.

I don’t want style but simplicity. But sadly today this world likes body rather than soul. This world is about more about showing rather than seeing. The world is running, in a race. Every one is busy in being the first one. Nobody can afford to stop. We need fake faces, and false emotions to move forward in life. We need back biting and false respect to get that write-in-resume assignment. We need everything other than purity. That’s what I miss the most about this place.

This place was probably too good to be real. It was rather a different world, strangely different from the real world outside it. It was a world where every single person you talked to was your true friend. It was a place where the respect given to our teachers was not fake. It was a place where no one was a competitor, but a friend who has to be helped at any cost. If he was absent in the last class, I will give him my copy. If he can’t understand this concept, I will give him my time. A place where everyone was still an innocent child, not a polluted mature adult. A place where friendship was a lot more than just “give and take”.

The phase of life that you all are going through, will never come back again. These morning assemblies and “finger on your lips” and “may I come in Mam” may annoy you right now, but when you leave school, these will be the sweetest memories of your life. What you will take from this school are not those awards or certificates that are distributed in the assembly every Friday. You will take away with you endless memories. It will be more than just a school, where you used to come everyday in the morning. You will take away with yourself real friends and real teachers.

Your teachers may scold you. They may even beat you at times. You may criticize them for the way they teach, but remember your school teachers love you. You may not feel the love you have for them and they have for you, but when you will come back to this school one day, you will feel this was your second home. Your teachers were your parents and your friends were your brothers.

There is nothing more beautiful than childhood and nothing is more dearer than your school. It is a place that you can really call your own. A lot like your home! But for enjoying your childhood, you need to be a child. Sadly as I hear these days, students are no longer children. They have become professionals. Classmates are no longer friends but mere competitors. If you are one amongst those who have shed away your childishness then I must better warn you. You are missing the very essence of your school life. FRIENDSHIP. When the next time your classmate comes to you, better think of him as your friend and not as your competitor. That will make your life a lot more beautiful. This is true knowledge and real wisdom.

To conclude I would request you all never to forget-“It is only a child, who can learn!”