Transition from a student to an ALUMNUS.....some ruminations

Opposite values are complementary ........


Every person undergoes the subjected transformation... and we see how opposite values are complementary.

When I was in school, there were a lot of such occassions which made me dread coming to school the next day. Sundays were worse, i would wake up with the dread of monday arriving at another dumb victim, rubbing its hands in glee, and it would be time to sleep......

There was so much on stake, you do not study properly, you dont get to play in PT hour, dont get to perform/participate in cultural activities and worst, you end up standing outside THE ROOM to meet the principal and get a sound thrashing from her !!!!!

And there would be PTA meetings...... my parents would see my paper (particularly HINDI !!) and would see that I had managed to scrape through.....on one such meeting my mother asked the teacher, why is that there are two different inks in all the answer sheets....... and she got the reply i dreaded the most...." your kid writes for the first 15 minutes, sleeps for the next 21/2 hours (in the exam hall) ;wakes up writes for the last 15 minutes and then goes out!!!! thats why the difference in the inks. Apparently i was stupid enough to write using different pens on each occassion...........

This then cascaded to a sound,,,,repeat sound thrashing from my parents and whosoever came home.......and this led to such a hatred on the national language of India .....a hatred which made every cell of my body to want to master the language and bring it in my control...well I topped the class in that very subject in the public exams.....(thats another story)

But now...almost a decade later (it is actually 10 years since i graduated from DAV, hard to believe), when i look back at those really hard and dreaded moments in school i realise the fact that these have moulded me to the person i am today..... in every way possible....... And i actually begin to enjoy reliving those dreaded moments... Truly - OPPOSITE VALUES ARE COMPLEMENTARY......