My memorable past..

Every time I think about my past moments in my life, I cannot stop thinking about it. Thinking about the past nostalgias makes me smile a lot. I would like to share my few past memories that are deeply inscribed on my brain. Even a ‘Ghajni’ like incident can’t wipe them out from my grey matter of my brain. Here are some of them...

Have you ever experienced the agonizing pain in fracturing a bone in your body? I have experienced not once but twice. The first one when I was really small to understand the pain and second one the unforgettable one. While playing in 2^nd standard near our building’s society premises, running wildly through a dense bush, I tripped over a stone marking the boundary of the bush and a path. I rolled two to three times on my back before coming to a halt. At that moment I realized an excruciating pain in my right elbow and started crying loudly. Such was the pain that I wasn’t able to move my elbow as if it had got stuck somewhere. My nerves of hand were giving high levels adrenaline to my brain which made me cry aloud for at least an hour. Somehow I reached home to find my mother telling me that I have suffered a fracture. She somehow managed to put a temporary support to my hand and gave me pain killers. The next day I went to an orthopedic who plastered my hand with one kilo white cement. For 21 days I had the heavy plaster on my hand right from my fingers to shoulders. During this period my friends completed all my class-work and homework assignments and I am really indebted to them.

Next memory that I would like to share is how my 2^nd standard picnic got spoilt due to my one of my friend. We were going to a resort in Ambernath. He was sitting near the window seat while I was sitting near the aisle seat regretting my decision not to a catch a window seat by running when the bus arrived and catching the much coveted window seat. As the bus was midway to our destination, the friend sitting next to me vomited on my left side. Yuck!!! I said loudly. He in spite of sitting near the window seat vomited that white liquid on me. Our body has such complex reflex actions is the one thing that I learnt that day. On that day I had tough time as I smelt the whole day. My class teacher Miss Leena cleaned the whole stuff as soon as we reached the resort. Still the smell was stinking the whole day. I didn’t enjoy the picnic the whole day. Just like cigarette packs carry a statutory warning on them –‘Smoking is injurious to life’, people who tend to vomit in bus should also carry a statutory warning on their shirt-‘Give me a window seat or suffer the consequences’. Still you can suffer like me.

One of my worst days in life turned out to be when I was in 3^rd standard. After playing one evening cricket on the big playground in front of my home, I forgot to take my bat. Somebody took the bat lying idly and we all went to my home to have water part to quench our thirst. As we all gulped down three to four bottles of water, in hurry I forgot to lock the door of my house. The house was left open and one of our good neighbors noticed it and kept a good vigil the whole evening till my mom arrived. When I reached home I got a good scolding the whole evening for the double losses I had suffered.

The next thing that recalls me is that of monitors patrolling our class. Whenever there used to be sometime between one teacher to come between the lectures the monitor used to take control of the class. He used to write the word ‘NAMES’ on the blackboard and he used to write those who used to talk or play some mischief. Though there used to be some regular names on the blackboard some of them used to beg the monitor to cancel the name from blackboard. If the teacher used to be strict, they would give remarks in diary or some would simply neglect. There used to be n type of monitors to do all work and they acted as if they are the immortal souls of the school. Also the teachers showed partiality towards these immortal souls of school.

There are many more memories that I will never forget with some of them capable of acquiring Oscars like those mentioned above. Don’t know but I have a unique ability to recall many things about my past. I hope my future will also give me such type of incidents in my life..