Hello Precious Fellows !
Hope and pray that everything that you idealized in life ,you got it ,and hope that it still did not loose it's charm for you and you still feel your lucky to have it .
When i was in school in 5th grade ther held board examinations .I don't know whether you know are familiar with such examination system or not .In all government schools until fifth grade yearly exams takes the school administration but yearly exams of 5th ,8th and 10th grade takes the provincial board .All papers by students get sealed and send to other various parts of the province to other lecturers and professors to be checked . Result comes in few months though studies get start already so later if any student is failed he can be demote to previous class.
So when i was in grade fifth ,board exams held in our school .All students of the other schools of district came to our school to give exam according to rules because our school was till middle standard (8th grade) then and other primary (till 5th grade ) schools came to give exam here so inspection team can monitor them properly .
Until fourth grade i was counted among position holders ,once came first only and then second and third. Inspite of my horrible hand writing teachers liked me because i was best in oral exams .Many times my class teacher said if you improve your hand writing you can come first in whole school .But i was unable to do so no mater how much i was in love with reading and creative writing but my hand writing was worse always.
Coming to point when we were sitting in rows and were writing our papers i realized that in row next to me some girls who were from other school were cheating . i avoided it and kept writing .But after some time some other students of our class got up and raised their hands to point out that they have to say something one of them nodded at me to come along . Inspector teacher called them closer and asked but we said we want to talk to our own principal . With little hesitation and counseling with her colleague she let us go to principal office . We told to our principal that we want to boycott because the girls from other school are cheating which is injustice to us .
Any way our principal personally went to those girls and took the pieces of small papers and erased the writing from their arms. She did not want this to acknowledged by the inspection team so things could get worse and papers could be cancelled .
Later we knew that girls who were cheating were from our neighbouring town .Meanwhile government announced to make a dam and that town 's land was announced to be as lake of that dam .People of that town were asked to evacuate the place and shift into town close by where our school was situated .Therefore the school of that town was also merged into our school .
Our school grew in number of students and new classes were built to adjust new students..
Among new student there was the girl who never forgot that we complained about hem during exams. She was strong in her presence though but there was something weird which i could not defin though but i knew there was something wrong in her insidious world .
When she joined our class she took me as her rival and that was weird because there were few students in class who were far better in studies and their hand writing was also excellent .I was so lazy to think about rivalry thing. I took positions in past effortlessly i never tried for it .
I had no concerns for my status as student ,i was just enjoying being first girl student from my village and were taking part in speeches ,writing short comedy plays and playing badminton with class fellows .
But she seemed quite focused about me .She many times sat with me and asked me about my family background . I told her that i have father who is watchmaker in Rawalpindi ,a mother who is house wife and hardly primary passed. I realized that This knowledge gave her quite confidence and joy that my family was not much high in education .
Then she told me about her family background that her father is most highly educated man of this area and headmaster of boys high school .When she told the name of her father , i found it familiar as my father many times mentioned that Mr Zia is most highly educated man in towns around .He was famous for his eloquent speeches ,social work and mostly was invited as chief guest in various academic events.
She told me with pride and enthusiasm that her tow elder brothers were in medical college and she will also be a doctor as his father want us to be first in the race of education in this town and we are not going to let anybody cross further . I realized that unlike other normal girls she was always sunken in studies . Sometimes she asked me i never saw you studying how did you take position and how do you even pass in your exams .
I tried to mentioned my way of memorizing my lessons which she found weird and inconvenient .She said okay we choose this lesson and equal time to study then give the test of it ,let 's see which way is perfect. i found it strange and specially giving my way of study such importance was totally strange ,how is this important for anyone .I can't even think about it (so lazy). We both sat in library room front of each other ,within 45 minutes i was ready for test ,i told her ,she looked flat . She asked 15 minutes more she needs . I agreed as from my side there were no concerns or objects at all because i took it as just as usual .
We gave test which took half hour hardly .She checked the tests front of me and smiled over my hand writing .She said "i have never saw such bad handwriting before". I felt embarrassed yet asked what about the answers ? She said ,you study at home lot i think as your answers are all correct which is impossible . I did not tell her that i never put extra effort in studies ,i just do home work which teachers give and that is all........
She next day put this issue front of teacher who used to tech us R.K (religious knowledge). She asked teacher to give us any random lesson which we had not studied yet in syllabus yet and take our test then announce the result that who is first . I found it so boring and irritating but could not say no to my teacher who was already mad at my hand writing .
I went home and did my homework ,ate lunch and got busy with my t.v programs and helping mom in chores . I totally forgot about competition.
Next day we both came to school and in r.k period teacher asked us about our preparation ,i got nervous as i was totally not ready for this .Teacher said she will take this test period after break (she borrowed that period from other teacher) .I was at peace that i got break time to look at the lessen at least.
Test was given after the period and result was told .she got 9 out of 10 and i got 7 .She did not looked much happy though because due to my handwriting she was accepting difference much more may be.
I was happy that at least she was little bit more friendly after that and never asked about such competition again. She said that studies took lot effort. I study a lot daily and near exams i get so frustrated to get better grades in exams.
she also said ,
"we had same time but you could not prepare like me because your parents cannot guide you in studies" ."how can they ? :They are not enough educated themselves" .
She said My father is my ideal and role model for people around he is preparing us for better standard of life ,Do you you know that environment of our home is very strict and divided in schedules for studies We study for hours and our father guard us for this so we cannot waste our time .
For me it sound quite crazy .but i was impress with her family educational status.
I told her she is very lucky to have such educated father who pays such great effort into his kids's studies . I told her my parents only ask me as if i have done my homework or not and nothing more about studies, though mom ask us to study little harder when exams are close. In short we don't take this on our nerves .
I realized that she was victim of superiority complex though still i was fan of her father who had dynamic and intellectual personality . I could not tell her that i never memorize lessens as she doe's .
i cannot do it . It was not my way at all .I just hold lessen before my eyes and let my imagination run to create it as a narrative painting or virtual story before me and lessen gets into my head with all it's details .
After three years when once during the school time our teachers sent me with my another classmate and guard to her home (which was little far from school ) to collect some notes from her . I was impressed to see her well designed big house . We rang the door bell .
after few minutes an old lady opened the door who seemed servant as her clothes were quite old ,dirty and a her face looked so miserable as she was extremely unhappy and been in cruel circumstances for long .To look at her and feel sorry for her was an obvious feeling.
When we told her that we come to collect notes from Hina (not actual name) she took us to Hina's room .Hina gave us notes after greetings and we came back.On the way my classmate who was with me then told that the old lady that opened the door was Hina's mother.
I was shocked because i did not accept that old lady as the wife of Mr zia (hina's father) my classmate further told me that Hina's mother was being treated very ibadly by her family .Actually she was nice and humble woman but not highly educated like her husband .
She was only 18 when her father fell ill and married her to his nephew (mr zia) .Mr zia though kept silence before the will of his father but later could not give his wife her real place and value that she deserved in his life and her only fault was that she was not highly learned like him.
Four children who grew while seeing their mother get insulted from their father behaved same instead of being kind to her except one eldest girl Asiya who never measured the respect and love for her mother in the scale of education.
I was listening and thinking that "why we get education ?"
What are those studies for ,if they can't make us a better human being ?"
The idol of Mr zia's huge intellectual personality collapsed suddenly in my imagination.
Later after some years nature showed her work .Mr zia failed in his each effort to prove his family most educated in area . His both sons who were studying medical fell ill mentally and remain insane for few years. Now they own genral stores .Hina's mother found dead in on her bed one day when Hina was in collage .She beard slight heart attack and left the world silently .
Hina i teacher now ,we are in touch though but it is from her side .i found her and her family so shallow and entangled in weird ignorant thoughts while they think themselves highly learned .I still feel pain for her mother and can't forget her miserable face till today .
Dear friends please take great care.,stay positive and keep balance in life's all attitudes and choices .
God Bless You ALL!!!
