Right through my school days I have been quite a trouble maker. I do not make this statement with any pride but with a lot of shame. Even as I write this, I experience great embarrassment and discomfiture. Today, in my last year at school I am much calmer and sober. I feel I have become gentler, a perfect prelude perhaps to becoming a good gentleman in the long run. Today I am repentant about the fact that I had been an unruly monster and if I were to live my life again, I would definitely wipe out quite a few unpleasant experiences from my life.
I remember what a villain I was in class. I used to produce weird sounds in class with some of my unworthy accomplices, whenever the teacher turned his back to write on the board. I was successful with my villainous sting for quite some time before I was caught and suspended from school for two days. Inevitably, I was reprimanded and my parents were summoned. Surely I had let my parents down.
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I did not stop there; the guy who was instrumental in getting me caught was also not spared. I beat him up for exposing me. He again reported this to the class teacher and subsequently I was given a ‘D’ grade for conduct in my weekly report card. Given a chance to rewind, I would definitely delete these experiences, which caused my parents so much grief, from my life.
There are quite a few other experiences as well that I would like to avoid. The list is rather long—telling several lies, trying to experiment with Papa’s car without a driving licence and damaging it, skipping tuitions, cheating during the examinations and getting caught, being negligent towards my younger sibling when I should have been far more responsible… . Perhaps it is all too natural that everyone should like to preserve only the pleasant experiences of life and obliterate the unpleasant ones.
Like others, I would also like to avoid the unpleasant share of accidents and health worries I have had in my life. I really hated being confined to the bed for over three weeks struggling with chicken pox. Then when I badly hurt myself in an inter-school football match, I had to be admitted to a hospital to mend my fractured ankle. I missed out on several matches for which I believe, not quite modestly, our school lost the final match. Given a chance to journey back, I would avoid the unpleasant experience of getting hurt and would love to play an important part in adding the championship trophy to our school’s collection.
However, as we all know, that is not something to be; but nonetheless in a given situation to live life all over again I would definitely edit and delete these unpleasant experiences.