Let's be butterflies, not moths :)

‘School is the best part of your life’ quoted my teachers. *yeah right, whatever*. And today I want to go back in time and smile and not frown at this statement my teachers made. I want to back to having recess. I want to go back and cover my books in brown paper. I want to go back and wear my school uniform, my id-card and stand in height order for the assembly. I want to sing the national anthem with my entire batch and fight for spoons during the break. I want to go back and be a school-girl all over again

Funny isn’t it. We march out of school and dress in the most traditional way for the farewell party. We cry at the first day of school and curse the timings all through out, and today when I am sitting at home lounging, and my juniors are sitting on wooden benches studying and following discipline, I suddenly want to go there and sit and study. What is this ‘thing’ about school that is so attractive? The uniform? No! its like a nurse dress. The teachers! Maybe! The people? Man they are egoistic! Then what is it? Why do I hate and love it so much at the very same time?

Looking at my old journal ‘symbiosis secondary school’ I realize what is happening. I never quite liked the uniform, the teachers or the people. I liked what the school had molded me into. I could write, I could respond, it gave me the ability to repel from wrong happenings, it gave me friends and mostly it gave me the most wonderful memories of childhood, adolescence and teenage.  It gave me instances of joy, sorrow, victory, friendship, support, love and a whole lot of b*****: P .

Now has come the time of fun I thought. All fun. Bike rides, parties, late nights, outings, no boring lectures, bunking. Everything looked like ‘kuch kuch hota hai’ but looks like its more like ‘taare zameen par’ half of physics has weird looking signs. Math is not just numbers anymore. Its theta, alpha, trig, blah crap! Chemistry has weird elements and bio has a trillion words like ‘ciliated columnar epithelium’. Well is this what I wanted. Well somewhere deep down. Yes. I wanted to work hard. College campus will be there but so will work. Fun will be there but so will frustration. If only the kuch kuch hota hai things would have been around, I wouldn’t have been able to face the real world. I have to learn to identify both sides of the same coin. I wanted to know what college life is about in reality. And since I am getting an unfocussed view about it, I am glad!

School was where we grew up; college is where we will evolve. School was pampering, loving, all homely atmosphere. We are now butterflies set open. Into the polluted atmosphere. The toxic elements of the atmosphere being, unhealthy competition, corruption, bribery, ragging, bias mark distribution. But since we are beautiful butterflies of a lovely cocoon, school, I am sure we are going to find way out of all this and evolve. We are going to a make this a better country by educating ourselves and having sensible minds.

School is a event of the past. College is our future. It is our step into the new world. Let's rejoice it. let’s have fun. Let’s work hard and let’s do what we want to do, not what we have to. Let’s be happy colorful butterflies, not dull dark moths. Let’s be enthusiastic, passionate, practical and live the most colorful days of our life. If we are going to be happy, so is everyone else going to be.  Let nostalgia encourage us, not bring us down. Lets work as a union and not a crowd. Lets laugh and make this world a better place to live. Lets be butterflies, instead of moths!