How many of us wait for that spurious moment . That state where we tell ourselves that we'll be happy once we get out of school b/c then we wouldn’t be going in every day . We wont be wearing that weird uniform thus catering to our voluptuous decadent needs while we'd get to spend more time with our once in a life time crush . We'd be able to smoke feely , allowed to come home late and what not .


Then we reach that moment . We go to college only to find that we miss those precious moments back in school . Those sleepovers . Those trips . Those teachers who’d worry about us when we throw up after having a truck load of marshmallows .Those friends who would do anything for us because they're our 'bestest' friend in the whole wide world . Like babies we appease our ids that fun is yet to come . We dont realize that once we get into college , university ... we wont be us anymore . We'd stop hugging people just because we like em .Rather we'd hug em because the society wants us to . Because he's the son of the Vice Chancellor . We hide our feelings so much that we dont know what we're saying is the real us or the clone . The clone who's supposedly well connected . Supposedly more 'into the things ' . More resourceful . We forget to notice the geeky student in our class who enters quietly .Takes the loneliest set available and quietly leaves the room once the lecture's over ignoring the lewd comments by others . Who knows we might even have become one of these in kids . Here its all about who outsmarts the other first . We're no more free anymore because we’re always anticipating others . Their moves . One way or the other we're always in a race . A race in the maze .


Ultimately the race is with ourselves . How fast can we deceive ourselves . How swiftly can we dismiss the thoughts that creep up when we see a bunch of friends going to school . You know y we like kids going to school ?? . Because we miss our old times. The times when we'd smile because the birds on the sidewalk know we're going to feed em and they gather around us obvious of our love for them . Oblivious of the inherent difference . Attracted by sheer curiosity and innocence , wary of only their appetite . We don’t worry about what religion jen , ali , amrita or joseph belong to because they're after all our classmates and buddies for life for ever and ever but then ali is a muslim , jen a christian and amrita's a hindu and that is all there is to it in University .


Maybe you don’t agree to all of this . But that doesn’t mean this necessarily does not happen . Maybe not. But it happens sometimes , Times when we’re waiting for the bus at the stop and we see lil sarah holding daddy’s hand crossing the road . For that brief moment … that split second …we’re overwhelmed . But then a screech and we’re back to present . So if you’re disregarding all of this .. there’s something wrong somewhere .And i don’t like it , i try and draw a boundary around when im being biased because i need to feel the child in me . How many of you have dismissed this child .. I don know .. i haven’t . And this rant is a proof of it all .