Lets go back (part 1)
It was a cold day.....she wondered if it was due to
drizzling or because she was so sensitive to cold as pointed out by her
friends. She always craved for a rewind
button in her life....one which took her back to college....well wait a
minute....no back to school....particularly to class 5. Reflecting back she now
wanted to live her life once again rewriting it in a new fashion....the one
which she would fondly remember.....she had too many regrets in her life! She
wondered if she was unique or everybody went through the same in their quarter
life crises.
Class 5 was fun.....She was a good student in school.....and
she made some real good friends.....School plays where she sported a moustache
and an gold color laced jacket borrowed from her brother for role of a greedy elder young man, 100 m
race where she came first in the girls and secured a second position in the
whole lot attributed to her long legs, SUPW assignments where she decorated a
cricket rubber ball with golden tid bit
plastics and shimmer pins, friends’ birthday when they chose a “best friend” to
take around with them in other class to distribute toffees and where she had
the pleasure of picking up 2 toffees unlike other, poem recitation competitions
where she forgot her lines when she spotted a friend frantically waiving
at her with a thumbs up, when good
handwriting was talent and using ink pens was a craze, when children stood up
raising their one hand straight up and asking permissions from the teacher
“Ma’am, can I go to toilet?” , “Ma’am can I drink water from my water
bottle?”.....she later learned in Class 8 from her English teacher that the
correct way of asking permission was “May I drink water?”. Insisting on purple Lady bird with basket and
having cycling sprees through out the colony.
Yes, she wanted to go back to those times again...way before
high school where she had a stupid crush over the most notorious guy of her
class who was very public about his liking for her benchmate.....they went on
to become a couple after continual persuasion from the guy like writing her
name on piece of paper and flying rockets in the class which She so failingly
tried to control as the class monitor! She was hooked on to him ...for a while
and that was quite a while....unless she changed school and place to try a
place of IITs after class 10. She became a silent admirer of a real good
looking guy who went on to secure a second position in the IIT joint entrance
examination while she busted it big time landing in a decent state level
engineering college. First Regret.
Can she really go back to neatly and crisp uniform dresses,
scrubbed faces, tied ponytails, daily polished shoes, sandwich/idle jam lunch
boxes, pilot pens, stern teachers, daily morning assemblies....to good old
days!!
How many of you would like to???
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