The Backbencher.

Things appear pretty much different from the last bench. You can do all the things while you are sitting behind. Just to mention, you can enjoy your unfinished tiff in, take a lovely nap, mock at fellas, question the established facts so on & so fore. I sometimes wonder that each one of us has been blessed with such a great talent & creativity how can we all be quantified by exam?? Once in for all? But I am in no mood to ponder on that because I am all set to write about life on the last bench.
When I sit at the last position in the class, it seems as if all the physical boundaries of this mortal world are ceased to exist. Everything around you disappears...everything, teachers who are hellbent upon convincing you how things can only be bookish or from an Alexandrian age (to say the least), batch mates, who are only concerned about notes from teachers, & fleeing off the class, all those idiotic boys & girls who hinder you from clearing your doubts even though its none of their business...& so on. You become one with yourself. Start enjoying the process of learning. Dan Brown, in his recent novel "The Lost Symbol" calls this as At-one-ment (atonement)!! Hindu vedas are the poems written in Sanskrit in which there is one all knowing Purush, & a student who has hell lot of questions about the things around him & curious to know them all. It begins with Aththato .....Jidnyasa. The student never stops asking question & neither the gerat soul stops answering them with all-time cool temprament. As we are growing up, we are surrounded by the mystery that life brings up with it. You must have noticed that a little kid who has been on this planet for say 6 months has so many quetions & quiriosities about this world. Thing is the kiddo hasn't just mastered the estblished communication skills of this world. That's why he is wondering, feeling, sensing the things around him, so that he can make some sense of the things at all. My point is, has that little kid ever went to school to know what are the questions he should pose in order to understand the things? Nah, that little fella can't even pronunce the word SCHOOL. But still, he is full of wonderment & doubts that with all the possible ATP molecules at expense, he tries to understan the funny matter around him & enjoys doing it. So, do we really need the curricula, classrooms & boring lectures? In my opinion, emphatic NO!! I think, the world appeals me more when I am on the back bench. It feels like suddenly, somehow the quarrel between Russia & Georgia is also shaping our needs. The tiny little chloroplasts, mitochondria, centioles, DNA suddenly become my heros. I understand environmental economics better while wondering about it than listening from any economist about it. Books become my great friends than any seriousminded lecturer.
Hey, but don't get me wrong, although I have fallen for the life at the last bench, I have no intentions of insulting or humiliating anyone who loves the things which I appreciate a little. It is just like that I am a bit different...I am a backbencher with full of amazement about life..!!!