𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐍: 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬

01|| 𝐒𝐀𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐀

I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.

-Sylvia Plath

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"Welcome to the first class of your last year of the school twelfth graders. Hope we will study hard and will ace the board exams next year."

Saumaya chuckled when she heard a chorus of groans from the students of twelfth grade on hearing board exams. She was once again reminded of her own twelfth grade time, where she would also get anxious with even the name of board exams but her father would always encourage her.

And remembering her father, the smile on her face dimmed but she shook her head to not wanting to travel in the memory lane right now.

Looking at the students she smiled and closed the book before coming ahead of the lecture stand and stood leaning with the table. She waited for the class to go silent and when the students noticed her standing with arms crossed and amused eyes, slowly slowly they all fell silent, and saw their teacher giving them a smile.

"Okay, I know all of you are quite anxious about the board exams. And you should be, because it is very important for your further life, for your dreams. Your coming life depends on your score in boards, right?"

All the students agreed by bobbing their heads up and down and muttering yes. Saumaya smiled and tsked.

"No. It isn't right. True, that your scores in boards will matter for your seats in the reputed colleges you want to take admission in, but, that's not at all. You don't need to beat yourself for that. You don't need to be afraid of these exams for that. This- board exams- is also a phase of your life and while you have to work hard here but with that you need to enjoy working hard too."

Taking a pause Saumaya saw the silence in the class and she knew what the students must be thinking.

"To be honest, and brutally honest, lemme tell you, that your college life is so not going to be the Karan Johar's movie style College life, where boys will go in dashing bikes, leather jackets, funky looks and girls will go in cute dresses, open hair, expensive bags. No."

The students chuckled and Saumaya too smiled remembering her own self where she used to fantasize about going in college and enjoying that cool life like they do in movies, and how hurt she was when she realised that the burden only increased in college.

"But Mam, at least we won't need to attend all the lectures compulsorily and do homeworks."

Saumaya smiled and nodded when a boy spoke out his view and others nodded.

"Correct. You won't need to attend all the lectures and get bored, you will bunk classes with your friends to enjoy and would not need to do homework, but soon you will also realise that how good this part was. The assignments, the research, the tests, the practicals, they will take the most of your time and you will never realise that when your college life got over ."

The students frowned and muttered something or other to each other but got quite hearing Saumaya.

"But am not saying that it won't be fun. It will be. See, my motive here for you guys is not to scare you of the college life I'm just telling you that if you think that this is the last year where you've to work and study hard and then life is set, the no, the coming life will come with loads of responsibilities and trust me, once you get hit by those responsibilities, enjoying would be the last thing you will know. So, with studies this year, we will also enjoy your last year in school, so that tomorrow when you will open that album of your school memories you would not regret and say that I wish I would've enjoyed that last year of my school life more. Yeah?"