Gone Are the Days.... Part- I

gone r the days when the school reopened in june & v settled in our new desks & benches. gone r the days when v queued up in book depot & got our new books & notes. gone r the days when v wanted 2 sundays & no mondays yet managed to line up daily for the morning prayers. gone r the days v learnt writing with slates & pencils & progressed to fountain pens & ball pens & then to micro tips. gone r the days v began drawing with crayons & evolved to color pencils & finally sketch & tube colors. gone r the days we started calculating first with tables & then advanced to calculators & to computers. gone r the days when v chased one another in the corridors in intervals & returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat. gone r the days when v had lunch in classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, under the trees & even in cycle sheds. gone r the days when all the colors in the world decorated the campus on the second saturdays. gone r the days when a single PT period in the week's time-table was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons. gone r the days when cricket was played with writing pads as bats & neckties & socks rolled into balls. gone r the days when few played "kabadi" & "kho-kho" in scorching sun while others simply played "book cricket" in the confines of the classroom. gone r the days of fights but no conspiracies of competitions but seldom jealousy. gone r the days when v used to watch live cricket telecasts in the opposite house in intervals & lunch breaks. gone r the days when few rushed early to "conquer" window seats in the bus. gone r the days while few had tiffin, others had "kulfi ice-cream", "vada pav" & "pepsi" in lunch hours. gone r the days of sports day & the annual school day & the one-month long preparations for them. gone r the days of tenth standard when v spent almost the whole year writing revision tests. gone r the days v learnt,v enjoyed,v played,v won,v lost v laughed,v cried,v fought,v thought.