The One With All the Memories...

Now sometimes, there are just random days when you kind of educe all those golden moments that you spent in the past. People often ask us about the best days of our lives. Without a doubt, I will always be ready with the answer "School Days". Definitely, those bygone days have left a lot... just like the imprint of a foot in wet cement. There is a feeling of a tied knot inside, whenever the memories of those days come alive - and the irony of this all is, that we never even realized that we were going through the best period of our life, when we were in school! And how could we, when we had the ever daunting task of criticizing every step and every decision of our school administration?

The first friends that we made, the first teachers that we idolized, the first time we got recognition, the first time we made girlfriends/boyfriends, the first time we fought, the first time we opposed, the first time we stood up for ourselves, the first time we abused... every thing happened during those years of schooling. We might have moved ahead, we might have achieved a lot, we might have forgotten most of the things that happened during school, but somewhere inside we do have a feeling that lives with us - the feeling of regret and the feeling of anguish and dysphoria that we never lived our school days as much as we should have and that we never realized the importance of those carefree, independent days sans all the tension and shackles of the daily burden of regular lives.

The maximum astriction during those days was when we got a lot of homework, or the teacher called our parents complaining about our wrong doings. And then started the session of endless apologizing and fake promises of not repeating our mistakes! But then, that is what school life is all about. You commit mistakes for the first time, and then learn from them, or maybe in some cases, start enjoying committing them. ;)

Since times immemorial school has played a very important role in creating what we actually are. As they say, the base of the building is the most important and so is the schooling. For all my fellow mates and contemporaries, I would say, that never let that child inside you die, and never let those amazing memories fade away. For all those who are lucky to be enjoying their school life still, I would say that live it to the fullest and do not leave a single stone of fun and frolic unexplored, because these days will never come back!

I close with the lines of the most famous song of Bryan Adams, perfectly suitable for the situation -

"Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, I'd want to be there
Those were the best days of my life"