Catch the one lie if you can!

There is so much truth in the saying “what goes around comes around.” I should know!

I have been educated in Lady Irwin Sr. Sec School in Delhi. I was a fairly good student. Though not exactly the teachers pet. Never could be! I was one of those students who could never sit still and was always asking questions. Most days I disrupted the class. My hand was up even before our teacher asked any questions. Punishments were wasted on me!

I did very well in my 10^th board. So I was forced to take up Science subjects. I wished I had not done so well! I had wanted to take up humanities but my dad insisted I take up sciences! So here I was studying Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and English. I took up painting as an additional subject. I was only interested in my English, Mathematics and Painting classes! (Now I am thankful to my dad though. I am deeply interested in the Physical Sciences!).

To cut a long story short, we had a very boring Physics teacher. He used to talk nonsense and never encouraged any questions in class. Pretty difficult for me. I found a perfect solution.

Right in front of him, I used to take out a romance novel and my lunch box. It was kind of adventure to read a novel and finish my Tiffin in class in front of the teacher. I did not get caught for a few days. He was rather dumb! (I know, not a nice thing to say for a teacher!) When he did see me, I was thrown out of the class. My dad was summoned to school. Poor dad. He couldn’t believe I could do this. All his three sons were angels and his only daughter, this! Needless to say, my dad was angry with me. He stopped talking to me. I was not sorry for what I had done but I did not like my dad going silent on me! Those were very painful days. But he came around eventually. How could he be angry for long with his favorite child?

But did I change? No. I became a backbencher and got on with my novels, food and drawing! But in retrospect I think my teachers let my by.

Now that I am a teacher, it has come a full circle! I have to deal with precocious kids, though not bad as I was. I pray that I never get a student like the way I was…..

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Wrote it for a writing exercise a few months back! Most of it is true apart from a single lie!