Days Gone by....

What was it like when all started...

Summers could never have been more wonderful. The clear blue skies, the evergreen singing of the cuckoo in my backyard, the green relishing leaves of the neem tree and their rustling, all was so peaceful!Who would have wondered the same scorching heat would turn into biting winters one day?

 While my grandpa slept sound in the living room as the cricket match was on hold, I was just immersed in my own thoughts as I looked out into my backyard. Still a complete hour to go before I was to run to my Chemistry classes! In this one hour every important thing that was a compulsion in a typical evening of an Indian joint family would happen. A maid would come rushing to do the dishes, my grandpa would wake up to make his and grand mum’s evening tea, my mum would wake up  after her after her after noon nap and decide upon what was to be cooked for dinner, make my sister drink milk (a job that would achieve success after hard work of waking her up, shouting on her and finally making her understand why drinking milk was so important and not a nightmare!). I would rather leave everyone in this confusion, take my bike and would go to my Chemistry classes.

My school days were adorned by huge amount of competition. Almost each and every senior I knew was managing to either become an engineer or doctor. I had my first stage of assessment (as our society identifies it), my high school exams in about two years. I was not prepared for what was to happen further. I had just stepped into a world where life was about to give me huge amount of lessons. Completely unaware of such events, I was living a normal day, in peace. 

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