Thanks sir! It would have been lovelier if I too had studied with girls but till class 12!
Friends, I made a blunder in the subject: it is "Auld lang syne" (happy memories!) Please forgive me not On 5/18/14, George Abraham <geo...@eyeway.org> wrote: > Nice piece! > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf > Of Shadab Husain > Sent: 18 May 2014 14:08 > To: accessindia > Subject: [AI] Auld lang sine > > Bill Gates guided me > > {This article of mine was published in the magazine of La Martiniere > Boys' College, Lucknow, where I used to study.} > > Ever feared if an unpreventable circumstance cuts you off this school > and cancels your option of studying elsewhere? > > WHAM. > > Your life will come to a creaking halt. You will be burdened with more > dullness than you can ever imagine. Yup, you will have a lot of time, > but it has pleasure because currently you are busy. You will be > friendless, lonely, and inactive. > > So was I when a progressive visual impairment compelled me to leave > this school. I failed in class 6th half yearly first but was then > promoted to 7th where before getting out of this school I failed again > and afterwards met more failures in grad and post grad also! Simple. > > Yeah, you guys might have guessed that I was not so good at studies. Right. > > And yeah, you guys might have also guessed that I kind of enjoyed my > failures and school-getting out. Wrong. > > These failures with my school-separation made me think of committing > suicide. The sorrow of being separated from my school, teachers and > friends is so seething that it still wounds my heart, though in time, > I got over my failures. More years than a decade has have past and I > continue to dream that I have returned to my early youth and am > studying in your school. I rarely regret over things, but I deeply > regret that a good piece of my teenage, in which each moment is more > precious than a gold coin, has wasted. So sad, so fresh, the days that > are no more. Tennyson. But... > > Martinians! Changing the paragraph here because now am going to show > you the positive side of the game. > > Deprived of regular education, faltering over failures - and therefore > exposing myself to mockery, I started to form a belief of my own. > > I was sure that my academic record is not the measuring stick for my > talents and potential. Charles Dickens had a formal education of not > more than four years. Bill Gates was a Harvard dropout; Steve Jobs > (the Apple guy) too was a dropout - Google out his college/university > name - and btw Google-choreographers Larry Page and Sergey Brin were > Stanford abandoners. Sachin also was a failure. In academics. > > Back to me: I tried harder than one can think to pass in English but > failed several times before I could obtain 3rd division marks. so much > I was committed to my education that even if for a day I was unable to > study, I used to fall ill. > > Sometimes my failures filled me up with self-guilt, but my teacher > (who presently is your principal) used to praise my writing, telling > it would be my forte! A comforting thought for me was (and still is) > that an eminent person and several people with knowledge have praised > me for it, so I keep going. I currently am not a famous writer but am > trekking that mount. > > To my joy, I have got two job offers to work as a writer. Imagine in > this competitive time a blind person with poor academics getting such > offers. > > I don't do the blunder of defining myself by academic record or small > achievements/failures. Nor Dickens, Gates, Jobs, Page, Brin did. > > Will you? > > > -- > Develop your personality and English at > http://PersonalityAndEnglish.blogspot.com/ > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessin > dia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its > veracity; > > 2. 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