The School re-union

Last Sunday was a big day for me. It was to be a school re-union day. After 6 years of separation, we were getting together again. The only difference was - we were no more the silly looking weirdos - we were engineers, doctors and scientists.

Almost everyone turned up. The most disheartening aspect was the fact that everyone had grown so tall. During my growing years, I was expected to grow beyond the coconut tree, but I ended up being just a 'bonsai' version of it. Faces hadn't changed much ... friends said I hadn't changed even one bit. That wasn't a compliment at all ... either they meant that I still look like an immature school kid or else they meant that I'm still the boy who doesn't know how to comb his hair.

We stormed the Pizza hut, all the 21 of them. The endless stories of school never seemed to end. The slow realisation of how amazing school life was began slowly sinking in into everybody. We camped at a friends' place, played games, had a whole lot of fun. Teachers were a favorite subject of our discussions. Some of them were so excited that they wanted such a get-together every month. That was hardly feasible. Perhaps once a year was more saner.

Crushes we had at school was the most discussed topic. It turned out that quite a number of them had a crush on a single girl, and all of them had turned up at the re-union. Well...I was one of them too !!

As the evening got darker, there was a rush to collect everyone's contact details. I'm a firm believer that the kind of friends you make during the 10 years of school can never be made at any other point of your life. College life is way too much fun, with all the freedom, but school life, inspite of the strict rules and regulations, is unarguably the golden moments of our life, that can never ever be replicated again. At the end of the day, everyone were looking at their school photos, faces with sprouting moustaches, uncombed hair, looking like clowns, yet loving every moment of it !!