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Few days back, our school celebrated Guru Purnima on it’s FB page. I guess most of it’s products are radially emanating. So no one’s got time to meet their teachers in person. I certainly didn’t, coz I m stuck here at Bangladesh. So I witnessed the first electronic Guru Purnima being celebrated. Sameer Pokhrel should have created this page a year ago, that way it would be my second.

Monsoon started early this season report says. So did the posts, they flooded the page. There were very less posts without likes and comments. The poets tried their poems. Doctors, engineers, nurses, CAs, BBAs, Has, PAs, BAs, IAs, failed, passed, appeared, appearing, drop outs, drugs in, everybody tried something different.

However this post was interesting. A guy bragging, how teachers were unfair to him and severely punished. He has his own reasons I believe. I don’t support punishments myself.  But wasn’t the good day to pull out that stuff. It wasn’t just me who got involved there a lot of X, Y,Z students were  already euphoric about it. I tried balanced comment, trying to maitain some kind of equilibrium. I also commented “ma bhumika ji lai hi vanna chahanchu….” Who claims herself to be this X student from our school, but to me she was a mathematical X “unknown”.

I didn’t cuddle up in milk all my school life. Punishments were just my extra meals at unexpected hours. This could never teach me any lessons. I used to be punished a lot for not speaking in English. One day this little girl went up to Fr. George Wilson and told him that her school caption was leader in speaking Nepali. I don’t know how did she put this up but I was embarrassed in front of the whole assembly. My name was called in front of the whole mass. That didn’t help me at all. I didn’t talk in English throughout my school life. That punishment would only boost the rebel inside of me and create more hatred towards this language.

Here is a short story. Kid ‘A’ and kid ‘B’ were two good friends in school. They did everything together for two typical primary level best friends. One day; no different day than they passed together for years. No lightening, no thunders, no downpour nothing. Kid ‘A’ thought it funny to throw away his best friend’s shoes into the mud. Waiting for the fun part to happen, he got caught by the teacher who was watching the whole act. This teacher was no Aamir khan from ‘taare zameen par’. The teacher severely punished kid ‘A’. He also made him bring back the shoes. Soon after, the pain healed and his nervous system got connected back to the brain again. The first thing his brain cells interpreted was his mistake of not looking for a teacher around. He promised to himself he would never execute such funny plans again until he looks out for a teacher around.

Here goes the second story. Kid ‘A’ and kid ‘B’ were two good friends in school. They did everything together for two typical primary level best friends. One day; no different day than they passed together for years. No lightening , no thunders, no downpour nothing. Kid ‘A’ thought it funny to throw away his best friends shoes into a the mud. A teacher saw the whole plan executed perfectly and just ignored the whole thing deliberately. Kid ‘B’ found out his shoes has made half way through the mud. He also found out it was his best friend who did that. All the students made fun of him while he went to get his mud dipped shoes. Kid ‘A’ got the fun part this time. Kid ‘B’ got hurt and he stopped talking to his friend kid ‘A’. Now things were never the same. They would not utter a mutual word that could take them to a colloquial. That went for days until kid ‘A’ realized it was his act of throwing shoes away that drove them apart. He apologized to his best friend and they remained best friends for ever.

The teacher in the second version of the story wasn’t Aamir Khan either. But he knew it very well punishment is not always an option. Sometimes you should just buy them enough time for themselves to realize what they have done. Time is the ultimate master that governs.