What to speak at School Reunion?

Now, that you have reached the venue of your reunion, the big damn question is what to speak? Emotions are churning upside down and moments right from childhood are running fast in your mind. Take a break. Take a side from the crowd. Have a sip of chilled water. Just relax. Think for a while and be prepared to take over the stage. Be ready to be hugged by your friends when you are done with your speech.

• What makes your speech more interesting is when it directly comes from your heart.

• It is engaging a story in it?

• The crowd can hear their names in your words which will keep them connected.

• Select a small incident from your school life which is actually very close to your heart and describe it in simple words. But always take care, never to hurt anyone or make fun of any person on stage. Being among your friends, you can open out, but not at the extent that you hurt anyone.

Let me grab a chance to show what I would have pointed in my school days and what makes me, what I am today.

Though whatever, I am, I am nothing in comparison to the loving hands of the teacher that were put on my head. I always want to shout loud to everyone that what love could do can never be done by anything else.

I was a coy kid. Always afraid. I was studying, but was not having any proper guidance, I was just doing something. When I reached 5^th grade, I got a hidden blessing from God. Perhaps, you Mrs. Braganza, my maths teacher was my first indication of the hand of God. She started calling all students my gal, my love, my son. Though it may be just some words for a few of my classmates, but for me it meant my entire world. She used to put her hands on my head and I was just getting stolen away from me. I never talked anything with her. But deep down in my heart, I just loved her and today too I love her. I was doing each and every piece of whatever she taught us. I was always worried that Mrs. Braganza should not be disappointed with me. I remember, when she called me to write something on black board, I was so afraid. It was perhaps my first incidence of rising from the bench and doing something. And then came the end of the year. We got our results. I stood first in the class. I was not even aware of what does it mean to be 1^st in the class? My parents were shocked to know it. But the bad thing with result came was that Mrs. Braganza is not continuing with the job.

She did her actual job. She gave wings to coy child who could not have done anything in life, if was not there. Today, I am a professional engineer with a successful career. Now looking after my son, but always blessing that blessing of my life, my teacher. 

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My school and College days

When we started discussing about school reunions, we remembered friends, our bench mates and those short pants days. But after coming from the school, a long journey of the most valuable days of life started running down my head, mind and body. I could feel, I am standing virtually among the rush my fellow mates were doing at the time of recess and the time when school was over. The sounds of hooligans that now we are free. Some monstrous friends, hitting each other. With a hint of a smile, I was just witnessing everything and for a while a tear dropped from my eyes. Life has changed drastically and these days can never be back.

Coming to my college days, it was all fancy. A life full of fantasy world. The dreams and enthusiasm of joining the world. I remember the child like thoughts that wanted to change the world. Those friendly chats and dreamy dreams. There were so many aspirations and storms of thoughts to do this and that after completing education. Acquiring job and getting married, having kids is all matter of dreams, that are now real. 

After reaching this phase of life, I think now what to expect for. Now dreams can be having a better home, a new car, world tours, but it can’t be same as the ones they were earlier. You can’t feel the same level of excitement that you had for the upcoming life. 

I studied in Gujarat board, English medium school which was considered very good at that time. Today, there are innumerable schools with five star facilities and study pressures. I wonder, if my kid can enjoy his childhood days in the same manner as we did in our times. CBSE board and IBboards are in a trend or stay in fashion and parents enjoy discussing the status of their kids to the schools they study in. 

Though, I was not a mischievous kid, but I enjoyed watching my friends making mischief. Whenever my teacher punished the entire class, she spared me of punishments as I was reputed for being a very silent kid. I remember this very fondly always in my life and miss what I could have done being among the mischievous fellows.

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What Makes School Reunion Such Hot Topic?

For many days, I have been seeing that people tend to read or search so much on school reunions. What makes it such a hot topic? Is it the gap of human emotions, inside a human? When we are young we always want to be like our dad or mom. To grow up as early as possible. We think that life is just like Go ahead and conquer, but as the time passes by and we get into practical lives, we start encountering so many gray shades of humans. At certain point of time, we lose the transparency of our natures. Malign and negative feelings get embedded into anyone up to a certain extent. Can you imagine the level of suffocation that builds into our self. As originally, none of us are like this? Our original nature is just to be happy. Happiness in any stage of life, in any state of mind.

In this search of happiness again we start looking back at the stages of life when we were carefree. Happy and joyous and starts the phase of missing the pals with whom we were just ourselves. The feeling of reinstating same inner self takes us down the nostalgic lanes. Yes, we can’t be like child, as people say, but yes, it’s a fact that we love to be with the people from our childhood. Though we are whatever today, we want to be with them any day. I have observed so much desperation among people to search on what to wear, how to behave, what menu to select, how to design entire reunion day? 

You work on functions at your place with lots of responsibilities and to show other people your status or your management. But here, it is doing everything, just for yourself. Just would like to say every person around who is about to have this day in life to enjoy it the most. It is the day when you can actually reconcile yourself. After the day is over, you can actually make out what you were and what you are today? Not at all in financial terms but as person, which means a lot.
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