Monday Mornings.....

I grew up learning that " To Err is human but to Forgive is Divine ". And now I prefer being human committing errors now and then just to prove that I am human, arguing on my point being right even if it weren't and I knew it from the word Go, trying to convince myself that its alright to be human and err rather than asking for forgiveness and make them feel Divine. And now I realise that it's harder to be human than to be divine. Why then would we Indians not forgive the Pakistanis for what a few grown ups had to do to us. While I was a kid and had to attend school which I hated then, I always felt one would never get to nowhere by going to school. But 16 years after I was done with my schooling and after the Supreme court ruled that elementary education should be made a fundamental right, the Rajya Sabha passed a legislation to provide free and compulsory education to every child in the age group of 6-14 years and from class I to VIII. All these years I grew up ...

Monday Mornings taught me that it's fine to forget the sweet memories of yesterday and move on to the goodies coming forth. During my early days of life Monday Mornings were filled with gradual lethargy caused due to the remains of the previous days' fun and frolic leading to come up with various reasons of not going to School but in vain. A little later they marked the excitement of getting back to my pals with juicy gossip and blabber within me and I started looking forward to the Monday Mornings. End of school and it looked as if these Monday Mornings would never turn up again in life. And they never did....till date. Monday Mornings taught me that it is not always what happens but also who all were with us when it happened that that makes it a special memory.   When in college it was a different story altogether. We considered it to be the best day of the whole week when we used to spend the whole day scheduling our week on submitting assignments with " Better late ...