SC-S29/W2- Nostalgia Of The Liitle Me : My School Days
My response to the contest of #storyonsteem hosted by @sohanurrahman
SC-S29/W2- Nostalgia Of The Liitle Me : My School Days
School days are the best days of our lives, however they may be but still as a child you enjoy those days the most, they are carefree and no stress of the world. That's true that we do not realize it then and we only realize it when we grow up and get into the grind of the world.
Even though my environment was not very best in my growing up, I still have some very fond memories of my school days, especially in the secondary school where I had many friends. I do not have much of memory of the time when I was in the primary school. After I completed my 7th grade and got into the 8th one, it felt like whole schooling experience had changed. I studied in a co-ed school, which means boys and girls mix, and I had more boy friends then girls. I was quite like a tom boy type of a person, not in appearance but in behavior. I studied in a different city then where I lived. In vacations when I would visit home, some of my friends would also come to spend a few days at my place and my dad was most welcoming. We used to have a gala time then.
A moment that defines my school life
As I mentioned I was a very tom boy type of a student and as I got in to senior classes I used to do lot of mischief. Some times even bunk school and with my friend would go on a bike ride. This friend of mine was just like me and that's why we were friends also. She and me would bunk one class just before the recess hour, go on a ride and get back to school by recess time. One day we met with a minor accident and got injured. Back at home I had to say that it was while playing football that I got hurt :-) There are many such events, I was full of mischief all the time.
I also had a boyfriend in school when I got in to the senior class, and I was all head over heels on him, though it never worked out but we had fun times. It was all so innocent then. We are still friends and when we remember all the madness we did back then we laugh our hearts out.
One thing was there, no matter how much ever mischief I made, there were no complaints received back home. I was also equally a studios student in my studies and would score good. My teachers were fond of me, so they would also overlook my mischief side.
I am in the center in the top row. Such fin times.
How I felt as a student
I lived in a boarding school, and I never liked that environment much but I loved my school time. I had many friends there with who I had connected and bonded very well, so whenever I was in school I was very happy. I felt a lot of freedom in school compared to the boarding where I felt very confined. I felt loved and pampered there and also I had this feeling of being wanted. I was the youngest in my group of friends in my class and that's why they would pamper me, which I really liked it. As I student I felt my best and sometimes wish that those days would come back again. It was an innocent time, there was not much of thinking, everything flowed right from the heart.
A friend or teacher who mattered to you
There were many teachers who inspired me and supported me. But there was one teacher whose kindness I can never forget. It was in my 3rd standard, one day I was very sick and running down withe fever. During break time, I had put my head down and resting. One of my teacher who passed by the class noticed me, she came to me and saw I was very unwell. She asked me if I had any food, to which I replied no. After that she went back to her staff room and came back again with a glass of milk. She made me drink the milk along with some biscuits and nurtured me in that moment just like a mother would nurture her child. I was staying away from family, and in that moment I was so emotional, I cried a lot hugging her and she reciprocated. I can never forget her gesture and this moment of my life.
He kindness made me believe that goodness exist in the world. Her kind gesture has come a long way in my life. I too want to always be there for such children and be compassionate towards them. She has been a major inspiration in my life.
In this picture the center lady is also one of my teacher. She is not the same one, but she was also a very kind lady who always cared for me and she taught me how to bake my first cake. Here I am in the back top
A mistake or lesson from my school life
School days are the days of learning, not only learning books but many life lessons also. Being a part of a broken family, one thing I always experienced was sympathy. Many people would feel sorry for me and my circumstances, whereas it never bothered me. I was too young to realize many things, but their sympathy would make me feel bad and it would also make me feel less. Their sympathy made me feel that things were terribly wrong in my life. I wished that instead of sympathy they would taught me to be confident and given me motivation to excel in my life. It felt like they were teaching me to live in a victim mode through their sympathies.
As I grew up, I realized, I never wanted sympathy. I wanted encouragement and motivation to do well in my studies, in my life. To have goals and to achieve them. Whenever I come across such children, I make it a point to never sympathize with their circumstances. Rather I would encourage them to get out of their situation and change their life.
I have very few pictures of my school days. There were no smart phones then and having a camera was also not very common. Here too I am in the center.
How school days shaped me for who I am now
A lot has changed from my school days. I am 50+ now so I cannot say that I am exactly the same person what I was then. But still a few things I have carried forward. Because of my circumstances then, there was one thing I always wanted to do was to change them for better. That has always been the case with me. I have always been very determined to change whatever I have decided to change in my life. Whether it is about health, or finance or achieving a goal. My determination and focus has been solid and this has been from my school days. Because of this attitude I have been able to achieve many great things in my life.
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The mischief of school life, friendship, sense of freedom and balance of studies have been presented very beautifully. Especially the dual aspect of the tom boy nature, skipping school and the identity of a responsible student in the midst of it all shows that you were responsible.
The incident of the teacher's compassion and motherly behavior makes us understand how important the role of teachers is in school life. The moment of caring for a teacher with milk and biscuits when he was sick is a moment of love, it is instructive from this incident how beautifully a teacher can behave.
I really liked the author's perspective. The realization of the need for encouragement and confidence instead of sympathy is very valuable for real life. Such realization is truly commendable.
The strange things in school life develop our determination, confidence and mindset of change, and he has presented those issues brilliantly.
If you had added captions to the images and used markdown, you could have gotten a better mark.