Odd man out
Today I feel different. I feel some sort of pain in my body, the pain you usually feel after a long tiring journey... Whatever it is I have to be at the school before 9 O' clock. Otherwise I have to meet my principal. Whoo... what a tiring life. It's already 8:40 now. Can I make it? I should make it. I push my bicycle pedals fast, fast and faster....Oh! my legs are paining. Its 8:50 now. I am only half my way... My God! Something said to me I won't be late. I was never late to school. So don't worry.
Only 3 minutes to 9. I am at the corner of the street where my school is. Damn! the signal turned red. I stop my bike and turn around. I see a movie poster that is pasted in the wall right to me. Two lovers sitting on a beach with a catamaran behind them. I stare the poster and am humming a tune from the film. I heard something in me telling the guy is the dad of two kids and the lady is married. Honk! The car behind me told the color changed to green. I pedal faster and faster and finally I reach the school at 8:59 AM. Whoohoo! I made it.
The first hour is physics. The teacher is talking something about simple harmonic motion. All I heard is pendulum, oscillation and pendulum. I am still panting with my heads down. Someone is calling me. I shake my head to see my physics teacher standing before me. "Define simple harmonic motion". I am mute. "What are you doing?". ".....". "You were not listening to the class". "....". "If you are not attentive you will not get through the half-yearly exam". After two minutes of silence I now sit down. I am smiling. Smiling? Yes! something inside me told I will never fail my half-yearly exam and to my surprise I thought this teacher will not work here till my exam. Any intuition?
Now the third class is Maths. My ears are hearing some words about differential equations, and my eyes are looking at the girl sitting on the row to my left side. Suddenly I turn my head and face the board. I feel something in me telling the girl is pregnant and expecting a baby soon. What? What the hell happened to me today?
I open my lunch box to see the usual food. My friend has his usual lunch. A guy approaches us, with a smiling face. "whatsup?" - my friend asks him. "hey! whatsup?" - he replies. "Meet my old buddy ...." I complete his name before he started. But I never opened my lips to say his name. How can I know one's name whom I am seeing for the first time in my life? I smiled again.
"You must practise the diagrams more" - my Botany Ma'am says to me. She is very much interested in me and hopes I get into a Med school. "Sure Ma'am" I reply her. But again the 'something' smiled. You will not go into a Med School. Shit!
After a long confusing, strange day I return home. Today something is different. Is ervything okay? I am checking myself in the mirror. Slowly combing my hair and gently touching my thin little moustache with my right index finger. Again I heard a giggling sound. Something said I don't have a moustache. What the heck!! I lifted my hand to break the mirror..."It's late. Go to bed" - my mom called. I feel tired and I don't know when I slept.
Still I have the same pain. I am in front of my computer checking e-mails. I see an e-mail from my old classmate. Good news! She has given birth to a baby boy. And another e-mail from my prof about the seminar in semiconductor devices next week. I feel tired. Let me refresh myself. I go to washroom and look in the mirror to see my well shaven face! Something struck me. I lifted my neck in frustration. I felt more pain than yesterday. Aaaahhhh!!! really it hurts.
Only 3 minutes to 9. I am at the corner of the street where my school is. Damn! the signal turned red. I stop my bike and turn around. I see a movie poster that is pasted in the wall right to me. Two lovers sitting on a beach with a catamaran behind them. I stare the poster and am humming a tune from the film. I heard something in me telling the guy is the dad of two kids and the lady is married. Honk! The car behind me told the color changed to green. I pedal faster and faster and finally I reach the school at 8:59 AM. Whoohoo! I made it.
The first hour is physics. The teacher is talking something about simple harmonic motion. All I heard is pendulum, oscillation and pendulum. I am still panting with my heads down. Someone is calling me. I shake my head to see my physics teacher standing before me. "Define simple harmonic motion". I am mute. "What are you doing?". ".....". "You were not listening to the class". "....". "If you are not attentive you will not get through the half-yearly exam". After two minutes of silence I now sit down. I am smiling. Smiling? Yes! something inside me told I will never fail my half-yearly exam and to my surprise I thought this teacher will not work here till my exam. Any intuition?
Now the third class is Maths. My ears are hearing some words about differential equations, and my eyes are looking at the girl sitting on the row to my left side. Suddenly I turn my head and face the board. I feel something in me telling the girl is pregnant and expecting a baby soon. What? What the hell happened to me today?
I open my lunch box to see the usual food. My friend has his usual lunch. A guy approaches us, with a smiling face. "whatsup?" - my friend asks him. "hey! whatsup?" - he replies. "Meet my old buddy ...." I complete his name before he started. But I never opened my lips to say his name. How can I know one's name whom I am seeing for the first time in my life? I smiled again.
"You must practise the diagrams more" - my Botany Ma'am says to me. She is very much interested in me and hopes I get into a Med school. "Sure Ma'am" I reply her. But again the 'something' smiled. You will not go into a Med School. Shit!
After a long confusing, strange day I return home. Today something is different. Is ervything okay? I am checking myself in the mirror. Slowly combing my hair and gently touching my thin little moustache with my right index finger. Again I heard a giggling sound. Something said I don't have a moustache. What the heck!! I lifted my hand to break the mirror..."It's late. Go to bed" - my mom called. I feel tired and I don't know when I slept.
Still I have the same pain. I am in front of my computer checking e-mails. I see an e-mail from my old classmate. Good news! She has given birth to a baby boy. And another e-mail from my prof about the seminar in semiconductor devices next week. I feel tired. Let me refresh myself. I go to washroom and look in the mirror to see my well shaven face! Something struck me. I lifted my neck in frustration. I felt more pain than yesterday. Aaaahhhh!!! really it hurts.
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