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This article is about my school days way back in 2005 . It was a vivid experience of all the different types of feelings within me - feeling of fear , innocent teenage infatuation , weakness , strength , introvert feeling , jealousy , extreme passion. I would like to describe the story of my school days.

I was 14 years old in my 8th standard , a class of 45 with unequal distribution of boys and girls. like any other trivial classroom my class had different kinds of people- attentive , lazy , introverts , extroverts , disciplined , rude , Einsteins , politicians etc etc . but the difference in a typical Indian classroom with the foreign counterpart is , here girls and boys are physically made to sit in different zones a good thi from ndian perspective. But like all the innocent infatuations between few boys and girls were not separated.

I was an introvert , staying on a boarding school away from my parents . I was very passionate to be the topper of class , but i had at most respect to the topper of my class , i used to buy him chocolates , praise him , as though it was a political battle in my little classroom . this was my feeling of respect combined with jealousy .

I stayed in a boarding school far from my home , my parents.I had a feeling of fear , as i stayed away from my parents. but i had a photo of my father and mother under my pillow , everyday i used to look at it and kiss them , tears would involuntarily flow . but i used to tell myself , about the good thing they had done by putting me in a boarding school , as there were no standard schools near my home. that was a feeling of wisdom and today i say to myself , that staying in boarding school changed my life , steering into the world of education , opportunity from a poor, middle class background.

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