it was his 1st day in the school. Terrified by going away from his mother, not knowing that he would come back in few hours, life already seemed cruel to him.
It was a monotonous sights at 1st go, wherein kids dressed in similar clothes looked like the monks trying to enlarge their community of distress and self cherishment. The playground was all made of sand and he did not like it. Where would he play now and not get dirty? As his Mum told him to be clean and not naughty. Curtain of hell seemed inevitable and the entry was not by invite.
The assembly hall was his next stoppage, unsurprisingly he could hardly understand what the principal was saying, all that seemed good in those 20 minutes was that he could do nothing and yet not be blamed. However, the stability of the legs took a hit, when the stronger boys around him bullied him knowing that he is the new duck in the pond, mess was, that he could hardly reciprocate to it. Idiots!!
The queue marched towards classroom and he slowly would walk with his head down and behaving like an ostrich, which would tuck its head into the hole and think that the coming problem would pass by, without noticing its presence. He was stopped for not wearing the school-belt, which wasn’t his fault. The school’s admin dept. did not have any to give it to him, so how in the earth the little boy could flex his muscle to get one?
None of the benches were free for him to sit, and he kept wondering if this is how it works in the educational centers. None offered the seat and he had no courage to ask anyone.
He was missing his home and his mum, who would take care of him when he would know nothing, and this world of outsiders was invading his innocence. He did not want any other person besides his mum to tell him and teach him the rights and the wrongs. He just wanted his mum to be near him and tell him that he is her life and the best above the rest, which he could not feel right now amongst this crowd and the feeling of loving himself, was getting numb.
He felt nostalgic, and who could blame him for that?
It was proving to be the toughest day of his life, which he did not want to live… and if given a choice he would erase this 1st day at school.
The alarm rang and the little boy got up- well, it was just a dream, and today… today was to be his 1st day at school…
this made me remember my 1st day in school...ditto!
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