Longest spend holidays-school days

6.00 am -The early morning got a watts app message good morning!

That’s a school friend. It is raining heavily, me sipping warm tea from my cup, thinking how much I loved the rain.  Sang sang bolanath paus padel ka, shale bhavati tale sachun sutti milel ka……….always wished to bunk school and play in rain.

Today I sit here missing those days, friends, teachers, and even study. Holding a newly ordered book in my hand I smell the pages and feel like the new year has just begun with a new stock of books, notebooks, and stationery. Remembering the morning prayers, followed by assembly we did in school and under the supervision of a strict PT Teacher who was an ex-army person.

We stand quiet, sing prayers, wishing the assembly to extend to miss the first lecture (naughty we).

Remembering the lovely class, where we sat like parliament does. Today I actually visualize all the classmates in uniform and girls in two small ponytails or pleats.  Recess was always the most interesting part of the day. Where, we stood in the corridor to share and chitchat, share tiffins with each other.

The favorite teachers and of course strict and not so favorite teachers, I miss them all today. We had nicknamed all teachers but of course, all are loved today.

We were so naughty, not that we are not today but those days we gave demos every day to our teachers and parents. I remember we even passed the tiffins in the class during a lecture, had got caught and punished. 

One of the guys in adjacent division actually entered the class from the small windowpane, because he was late. And then the recess was to see how he did it. Many memories run around my head like the chirping birds in cartoons when he headbangs.

When the language barrier  almost killed all the boundaries.... A classmate giving an excuse to teacher saying. Maza Mann dukhtay...headache.

Those laboratory days, when we struggled for the vernier caliper readings and chemicals to show the right reactions and sometimes they didn't making our day painfull. Even the lab assistants and the peons of school, who helped us are remembered today. The School taught us the spirit of celebrating National festivals. The biscuits we got after the event of flag hoisting. The small get together at the Vadapav junction near the school.  

The projects and the competitions which kept us on toes to perform the best and sportsmen spirit that we earned thru all this competitions. The two houses which gave us identity and made us realize the responsibility in early age.

Exposure to gymnastics and sports was one of the best parts of school days, where we learned many sports like baseball, hockey which was not so commonly played in taluka place.

Social distancing remind me of beautiful memory.

Keep one arm distance to form perfect line, sweet nostalgic memory of school days. 

The perfection in dressing, behavior, parade, singing, dance, competitions everything thou pressured us at that time has made what we are today. I look at the DP of watts app group and laugh.  

Actually, those were the longest holidays we spend. Today when we have a wats app group of almost 60 members, I recollect everybody in school uniform. School days, Aha!! Yaadein reh jati hain, Kuch meethi baatein reh jati hain. Our Adolescense years......

We were growing young and were  in teens when we left school. It was the year of teasing and Masti. Finally we loved going to school by last year. The first crush....

When studies pressure increased, we were dreaming of the future. Now we are in the future missing those school days………Hum bade to ho rahe the par bade nahi the …… many of life’s first created during those days for us to remember today. First movie together in a theatre, picnics, sports days, competitions, annual days, Ganesh festival at school, the two houses, projects, etc etc etc it's a never-ending list. There was nothing like uski dress meri dress se achi kyun? even gadgets did not exist, it was the old wired telephone - the landlines at home or bi-cycles to catch hold of your friend. What fun it was, thou that we thought we were loaded with activities and so much of study, we actually enjoyed it.

Today with gadgets and a lot of connectivity tools I do not see the warmth in the friends as we had. I used to cycle down five kilometers to reach my best friend's place every day, today the gadgets made it so easy to connect and lose physical connectivity. Like every parent, I also add, Humare time ki baat hi Kuch aur thi.....isn't it?

School gave us many good insights towards life one of them was visit to NDA. That was the final teaching we received last year before we could step in the world. We were all prepared and had strength in our feathers. 

What would I give to relive those days of sheer happiness and freedom from all worries. No matter how old we become we cherish the “small nothings” of our school lives. School may remind you of your close buddy or a strict teacher, some accomplishments or some failures, report cards, and punishments, everything brings a smile to our faces today. Today’s day is going to nostalgic as its  6.00 am I think about all of you. Miss you all guys and lovely teachers and of course the school building as well.