It’s a wonderful afterlife!

This is a phase of our lives that we are free. We are over with boards and hopefully not thinking about results, yet.

Here’s my list of three things that are a must-do these days.

1)   Declutter

Throughout the 14 years of your school life, you have been procrastinating, but now you don’t have a choice. You have got to do the cleaning work now, at least for the sake of our mothers. She would be the happiest person to see that the cupboards, almirahs, and boxes overflowing with papers, half-torn books, wrappers of chocolates consumed 1,2,3,4,5, years back, et al. be cleaned.

You might even find curios- an unidentifiable ten-rupee note, that circular for parents-teachers meet that never found its way into the hands of your parents.

2)   Dearly keep or throw deep

list1

This list has the things you ought to keep

1. The paper with the song “dost-dost na raha” written in that ugly, illegible writing of your best friend who was annoyed with you for not having shared your ice-cream or dairy milk silk with him/her. Remember how you both were standing outside for the class when you were caught throwing chits in class?
2. This one, boys only. You’ll find at least half a dozen rakhis that the best girls of your class and school tied on your wrist. If they did not, you have got to check up on your-self and your self confidence at the earliest.
3. Test Papers – and exam sheets.  You will find some of your friends sheets as well. Keep and preserve them for blackmailing your friend throughout life.
4. Stationary items                                                                                                             Believe me, these harbor some of the most precious memories- that expensive pen that you lent to your friend and he chewed it away, that pink pencil which you have used since childhood, that half eaten non-dust eraser, the pen with which you gave your first Board exam!!!
5. certificates and batches- keep them safely after you stop wondering what you had done to give teachers the wrong impression that you deserved to be the prefect, monitor or winner of the Saturday activity…talking of Saturday activity, remember how great friends could turn into foes when put in different competing groups.

List 2

Things you ought to refuse without second thoughts

1. That sticky blackened mass of consumed chewing gum. Throw it away, you filthy boy, because we know girls never preserve a chewing gum.
2. PTM Circulars You never did go; you parents did not even know.Whats the use of keeping, so?
3. School dairy- since we all know it’s only filled with red-hued teachers remarks, if you read at most 3 pages with undistracted attention, you’d end up in a hospital or asylum.

3) Revisit childhood

Simple. Switch on the television and opt for tom& jerry or shinchan, instead of thoughtless surfing.

Read some children’s story books, they are an innocent pleasure to read instead of the senseless, unscrupulous adult fiction.

Try a walk in the park rather than hitting the gym.

and remenber,

This-time-will-never-return-back!