Life in Retrospect (Rajni)

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.

·      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.