Random Thoughts

1. Life gets busier as one gets older. So treasure these moments of freedom while you can.
 

2. No matter after how long you visit your school, the teachers  still look the same.
New buildings may pop up, different food stuff may be sold in the canteen,  kids in Eleventh grade may appear shorter than those in Eighth Grade but some things never change and I hope that as time flies by, there'd still be something left of the old Mothers’ International School I grew up in, that I can relate to.

3. School alumni meetings are horrid. Migrating from  one school to various colleges surely does change people. The force that bound us all  in school is no longer there. We're like free birds now. Each one flying in his own direction. And you don't get free drinks.

4. The chocolate cake in school still tastes the same and even after so many years is still priced at Rs 10. Its amazing to see that there is still no presence of any commercial foodstuff and the items made in the Ashram are still popular with the students and faculty.

5. I miss playing cricket, table-tennis, badminton, football, squash, tennis, clue, carrom, Scotland yard, pictionary, hide and seek, vish-amrit, gallery, pithhoo, and cycling with friends in my colony.
Cycling was even more fun, especially after the rains. It was fun to cycle through the puddles of water and splash water on people who dare to cross our paths.
Till class 10 or 11 playing outdoors was a regular feature but as the entrance exams for the IITs, DCEs, AIIMS and many other institutes came closer, one by one people backed off and then there was no one left to play.
The kids who while away their time on the computers don't know what they're missing out on.

6. These are the days of easy money thanks to tuition and call centres. And these days one can even make money through the internet. No sweat.
The lure of money is too attractive for the young minds who give in too easily to temptation.
Its not wrong either. One learns to be independent, manage money matters and realize the power of money. But it also hits one with an inflated sense of ego or pride.
Its too easy to get carried away. Money is mysteriously powerful.
And as Spiderman's aunt said: "With great power comes great responsibility."

7. Don MacLean and then Madonna sang about the day the music died. I hope it never comes to that. But if at all it happens and one would have to let go of all music but for one song,
ill be happy to be left with the 'Stairway to Heaven'.

- Sundeep Teki