golden days of life

“I don’t want to go to school mama!” I am sure each & every one of us would have said during our earliest school life. Four years of freedom and carefree living had come to an end and we felt like we were being put inside a prison. Waking us up each morning and getting us ready to go to school would have been the most difficult task for our parents. The first sight of teacher scared us we used to cry bitterly and turn our classroom into a pond of tears. The teacher would console us and try to make us feel comfortable. Gradually, we began to adjust to this new lifestyle.

The smell of new books would excite us. We would turn the pages and look at the pictures. Initially, the teacher would hold our hands and teach us how to write. The achievement of writing our names independently for the first time gave us the happiness of climbing Mt.Everest coloring seemed impossible task as we has to color within the borders. Singing rhymes and action songs was the best part. We love to make paper boats and rockets in the craft class. Lunchtime was fun and we would often be seen staring at other’s lunch boxes with our mouth watering. Getting a medal for the first time was like achieving a doctorate. Making friends was a difficult task with the usual ‘toos’ and ‘says’. If someone did mischief in the class the class would echo in chorus “I will tell to teacher” and the poor girl would start crying. We would poster our teacher with complaints like “someone has stolen my pencil” which was a great thing then.
We would look forward to our birthdays. On this special day, we would wear nice dress and bring a box full of chocolates to the teachers. Some teachers would kiss us! We would get lipstick marks on our cheeks which we would show with great pride. The entire day we would be surrounded by so called ‘friends’ who would wish us with an eye on the chocolate box.

We had no fear of tests or exams then. There were no tension, no competition, no enmity. All of us were so innocent. Each day was filled with surprises. There were so many new things to learn. Life was full of excitement