Thursday, August 30, 2018

What college can’t teach me school did

The story goes back to the time when I was in class 6, and for the first time an expert choreographer came to our school for preparing dance performance for Independence Day. The song was,” Mere Paun Mein Payal” , that was the first time when I was fascinated with the very idea of dancing .I was fascinated with the very idea of dancing my senior Prashant Bhaiya was a star when it came to dancing .I would watch him practice in the school ground and adore his grace and style. The insects of dancing were born in me when I saw my seniors performing on “Dus Bahane “when I was in class 4 but the real opportunity came to me in class 6 when inter-house dance competition was organised for the first time. we did not have a music system at my home. My neighbor Seema di had music player and I would go practice at her house .I choose the very basic song of the movie “Hey Baby” and the song Mast Kalander.I had no training are mentor ship at all.it was all instinct of my heart that took me to stage.I had computer  back then and I burned  song in the disk  through NERO and made it into a audio CD.I was ready to perform dance for the first time .i submitted my CD and while I was preparing for my dance. A flashback visual came to my mind when our teacher prepared us for a dance performance in class 4 on the song “Kehta Hai Joker” .we were kids then and were very excited to perform on the stage but that performance never happened.coming back to reality my name was called and I went to stage and there was no audio in background.My best friends were all cheering even they knew I dance shit but “DOST KO DOST AGAR YEH BATA DE KE WHO CHUTIYA HAI ,TOH DOSTI KI ADALAT MEIN ISE SABSE BADA GUNNAH MANA JAYEGA”.3 minutes passed and I was standing still felling Numb on the stage ,hooting began from seniors .My teacher called me and told there’s no song in the disk .Do you have any alternative.I told I have no alternative .Preeti mam was new recruit as music teacher and that was my first interaction with her.she said,” beta, aap mere paun mein payal pe dance kar pawoge.I replied in affirmative because I had seen my seniors dancing and I knew steps.I went to the dance floor and did what people call it pathetic dancing .some of my seniors made fun of it even it was worth it instead my friends were like ,”bhai ek no ,tum stage pe gaya wahi bahut hai.obviously I won nothing but I generated a inner self will to win this stage and the support and appreciation that made me try next and come up stronger .I promised myself I would practice till I win 1st prize in inter dance competition .i waited a year for the competition till then I would practice dancing with my brother and sister .This dancing with my brother and sister in front of my mother had earned me enough confidence to go on stage and do it without fear because I had practiced the art of being confident and that’s being shamless .i choose the sonf move our body from the movie kismet connection and prepared myself upfor it.i had all the confidence and I entered the stage with a back rolling stunt and danced my heart out.The basement was full with applauses and cheer .I knew had made an impact and reached the very initial step towards winning .I had people cheering ,teachers appreciating me,my friends were highly supportive .we did not had Instagram and mobiles that much else I would have been a star already which graciously I started to become in my confined locality of people.That performance earned me my very first stage performance in  our school’s first Annual Prize Nite in front of my parents.Even knowing I am a very mediocre dancer,my music teacher believed in me and supported me throughout my schooling and whatever I am today  a lot o it’s credit goes to her.The school supported anything that helped us grow mentally and reach at the very basic level where even if we fail people don’t judge rather appreciate.Today I study in a college that considers  itself to be a budding house of creativity and freedom rather kills it the very first day.How many times we have seen colleges hearing their students out the way schools did.The way teachers understood our individual capabilities and credited on the base of our individual talent.but here in colleges even the relationships are mechanical among teachers and students no emotion is attached even we are all judged on a universal parameter where  an individual is killed to become a part of mass choice and follow trend or you are outcased .The very fundamental goal of college is to kill friendship ,freedom and art priorily and turn them into pathetic functioning robots who follow instructions without their consent or self motive.college can teach competition but not to fight failure.college can teach me fear but not to fight them.what school can college can never do it.College can turn boys into men but at the cost killing the innocent child he had in himself that pushed him to think beyond human barriers.SCHOOLS KEEP THE ART IN YOU ALIVE AND LET IT GROW EVEN THEY CAN LET YOUR MEDIOCRE TALENT GROW WHILE COLLEGES WILL KILL IT AT ONCE.I am afraid of  dancing not because I don’t dance very well because I never did dance well .i am afraid to take a failure in college which I wasn’t in school.So there are things school can teach ,colleges can’t.Also in today’s time FAILURE LEADS YOU TO MEME AND FUNNY VIDEO CLIPS THAT IS THE CURSE OF TECHNOLOGY COMBINING WITH THE WAY COLLEGES RUN  TODAY.

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What college can’t teach me school did

The story goes back to the time when I was in class 6, and for the first time an expert choreographer came to our school for preparing...