Lately I’ve been
reflecting upon how I’ve grown up over the years. And whenever revisit the memories I am either
blushing at the stupidity of my actions or being surprised to know that I could
have done something like that.
·
There was a time when I would desperately want
everybody to have my tiffin and so that I could eat his or hers. So embarrassing!
·
I had to speak something on the topic “My Mother”. As I continued with what I had learnt I forgot
what I had to say after that. I started speaking all nonsense about chairs and
dusters and what not. (I could have died due to shame!)
·
When we’re in kindergarten, birthdays are such a
festive occasion or all the children in a class. During his birthday
celebration, a boy in my class needed an extra chair. I gladly offered him mine
so that I could sit stylishly on the table with my right leg crossed over my
left just like actresses. My teacher saw what I was trying to do and told me
get up and share a sit with another kid. This was the first time my ego was
hurt.
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This incident, till today, is one of my proudest
moments. In KG, I was selected for a drawing competition. During the results
time, I didn’t hear my name being called out. Since it was the first time I had
participated in a competition so losing didn’t matter so much to me. But my
mother thought otherwise. When she came to console me, I innocently told her, “so
what Mummum? At least I got an apple!” (Fine talking huh?)
·
KG-A and KG-B had two boys who were quite
healthy for their age. Every morning, the kids who would come early to school
would be “honoured” to see the two boys fighting. I used to be one of the
spectators. We would cheer the to boys to fight and made such revelry! What a
mean bunch of kids we were! It is so utterly embarrassing to realize how mean
you could be as a child.
I suppose everybody’s
life has been just as weird as mine. After all life is a cocktail of weird and funny,
proud and embarrassing, nice and bad moments.
