The Story of Eminent Dreams - I

Father to the son," Make Friendship With Good People Only", "Be careful in school, you are going to school for your future not for friendship, don't get indulged into bad activities, sit on the first bench & develop good habits and don't be friends with guys having bad habits".

The boy moved to school with a bit of fear in his heart that what will happen if he didn't get first bench vacant, What if the boy sitting next to him has bad habits...

The boy reached school & went to assembly ground for morning prayer, he found other pupils playing there, they were running, laughing... But the boy followed the queue of the sincere students & waited for the morning prayer to start.

Prayer started with the word "Om", but he didn't knew what this word exactly meant. There were a lot of unknown words in the prayer verses which were strange to him, he thought that school was also a strange place for him so it doesn't matter for listening strange words here. The prayer was over but his strange thoughts continued. In a few minutes the queue of sincere pupils carried him to classroom. Luckily he got the first seat in class. Students were staring at him like they hadn't seen a boy like him ever before. He was little bit frightened & scanned the whole class with his small blinking eyes.

The small girls were making a lot of noise by chatting with each other. Few boys were playing with Chalks & dusters, the boy was observing everything sitting calmly. He saw two boys were kneeling down on the floor by the order of a boy wearing full sleaves shirt. His heart was pounding with excitments he saw at everyone's face but he was fearing to join the crowd for creating nuisance. Finally he couldn't control his desire, he stood up & went to the boy wearing full sleaves shirt and innocently asked him,"Can I also play with you?". He gripped his hand & took him back to his seat and said,"Listen I am the class monitor & we are not playing here, they are being punished for making noise, now sit down & don't move here and there".

He thought," wow!! Schools are so funny, punishments are like fun games and people are indulged in their own activities and no mom!!, no dad!!, no force to study". Finally the classroom goes silent like a deserted graveyard, he looked up and found a big man standing in front of him. The big man said," Hello!! Can't you see everyone here is standing." The boy didn't even knew when to stand up and sit down, what to say, how to react...

He was nervous. Some mild voice came from behind saying,"Sir, he is new in school". "Okay", said the big man," whats your name my boy?"

The boy said nothing, because he was too nervous to react. "Sir, his name is Andy", again a mild voice from back benches.

"Okay! buddy welcome to new school, now onwards whenever you will come across any of the teachers, you have to wish him by saying G-OO-D M-O-R-N-I-N-G Sir or madam by standing on your seat, understood??", Teacher, the big man said.

The boy nodded as he learnt a new thing.

When everyone seated, the teacher called Andy and said," Your Roll No. is 49", "Where is your home, what your father do..."?, he queried.

Continued on The Story of Eminent Dreams- II & The Story of Eminent Dreams- III :)