Monday, September 29, 2008

...Stage fright.

I probably had just two fundamental grounds which encouraged me to go up there & speak up. Firstly, I had always cherished being a reason for peoples’ laughter, and secondly this guy.
I’ve been seeing him since the time I joined MPB, as we joined in the same year. In the beginning everything was just neutral, with no student having recognition different from the other. But with time things changed and competition started to take its high rise. There wasn’t a single sports event when he failed to bag at least one medal. Gradually he even started to excel in academics, and with time he started winning awards even for remarkable academic performance. Moreover he was a revered human being, who was down to earth and great talking to. I saw him flourishing with time. Now he participated at the recitation, extempore and many other extra curricular activities.
He was the first person, who in fact started reporting to the student newspapers for our school. Then it was the limit. He became a part of the school basketball team, which won the school its first accolade in inter school basketball. Lastly, he’s the same guy who stood up as the honorable former head boy of the school, & is a board member of the schools social service club. He’s just the best, the most perfect. Friends this person is no one but…Shreyas Grover.
I used to feel ashamed and to some extent jealous to see his competence. Like I hadn’t done anything in my life, and look at him, being provided with the same facilities he has been so sufficient and up to the mark.
And then I started trying- and took part in the annual cultural program last year, gave a few speeches, and would continue to cleanse and develop myself as a person. ‘Cause even though I may not be able to be the best as he is, but I can always try and be better. A better person ,a better human being.