One fine day, when i was finished with my experiments and I turned off the knob on the stove, i was caught red handed by mother dear, not that this was the first time! But this time I didnt expect what was about to happen.
Apparently it was time to send me to a place called school - a place where human beings are taught! It seemed unusual that I needed to be taught. But I also heard mother dear say something like, it was a place to socialise with other kids.
For the first time in my life (my life till now has been way too short, but considering the experience i accumulated, you have no right to compare yourself and me on similar grounds!) I felt unsure. I had been fine, learning by myself. Infact i had an older but 'not necessarily experienced' brother. I didnt even require his help, I wondered why my mother thought so little of her younger son - that he needed to 'socialise'.
Nevertheless, I realised I must face challenges head on (another of Jiko's lessons). So I decided to join this 'school'
Soon I was to give my first entrance test - which I didnt bother to write, because I felt it to be beneath my dignity to go through such trivial ordeals, as a result I left the paper blank. My mom was furious and gave me boiled vegetables the whole of next week!
I realised that sometimes it is necessary to let go of your pride when others are in control of your life! So, the next week I was to attend another interview. The day before the interview, I was being freely manhandled by my older sibling. Apparently, it is said older siblings do it to feel good about themselves! Since I was so generous and realised that denying him the pleasure would drive him insane, I allowed him to do as he pleased. As a result he hung me upside down! (Jeez! The childishness I had to put up with!) My mom looked at the both of us, especially at me in a concerned manner! I knew she was thinking about the interview. I gave her an assured thumbs up sign. Apparently that only diminished her hopes further, because my 'thumbs up' appeared as a 'thumbs down' because I was dangling upside down!
Nevertheless, I assured myself to do well as I was getting sick of boiled vegetables.
On the day of the test, I answered most of the mundane questions. Finally we were asked to draw a rainbow. I could see most kids drawing the familiar seven colours : most were not even in the VIBGYOR order, some even included rose, magenta, cyan! Jeez such simpletons! Therefore I drew what was scientifically correct :White light, refracted through a prism leading to the splitting of white light into its constituent colours and refracted at various angles based on their wavelengths. Since I didnt bring colour pencils, I marked the colours by name. With this the NUMBER ONE position in the exam was sealed!
But when the results came I was shocked! I was placed 6th because the people better in rank than me had used more colours! Apparently creativity and beauty was the cynosure for judging the drawings and not logic! That meant if u drew rain, sun, some trees and an unscientific rainbow consisting of all sorts of composite colours - you are better than the guy who drew a prism, a white point source of light, a tracing paper and a VIBGYOR light that showed the correct refraction angles of the seven colours based on their wavelengths!
I was disgusted, but nevertheless mother dear was overjoyed because I was admitted as there were 10 vacancies!
Apparently it was time to send me to a place called school - a place where human beings are taught! It seemed unusual that I needed to be taught. But I also heard mother dear say something like, it was a place to socialise with other kids.
For the first time in my life (my life till now has been way too short, but considering the experience i accumulated, you have no right to compare yourself and me on similar grounds!) I felt unsure. I had been fine, learning by myself. Infact i had an older but 'not necessarily experienced' brother. I didnt even require his help, I wondered why my mother thought so little of her younger son - that he needed to 'socialise'.
Nevertheless, I realised I must face challenges head on (another of Jiko's lessons). So I decided to join this 'school'
Soon I was to give my first entrance test - which I didnt bother to write, because I felt it to be beneath my dignity to go through such trivial ordeals, as a result I left the paper blank. My mom was furious and gave me boiled vegetables the whole of next week!
I realised that sometimes it is necessary to let go of your pride when others are in control of your life! So, the next week I was to attend another interview. The day before the interview, I was being freely manhandled by my older sibling. Apparently, it is said older siblings do it to feel good about themselves! Since I was so generous and realised that denying him the pleasure would drive him insane, I allowed him to do as he pleased. As a result he hung me upside down! (Jeez! The childishness I had to put up with!) My mom looked at the both of us, especially at me in a concerned manner! I knew she was thinking about the interview. I gave her an assured thumbs up sign. Apparently that only diminished her hopes further, because my 'thumbs up' appeared as a 'thumbs down' because I was dangling upside down!
Nevertheless, I assured myself to do well as I was getting sick of boiled vegetables.
On the day of the test, I answered most of the mundane questions. Finally we were asked to draw a rainbow. I could see most kids drawing the familiar seven colours : most were not even in the VIBGYOR order, some even included rose, magenta, cyan! Jeez such simpletons! Therefore I drew what was scientifically correct :White light, refracted through a prism leading to the splitting of white light into its constituent colours and refracted at various angles based on their wavelengths. Since I didnt bring colour pencils, I marked the colours by name. With this the NUMBER ONE position in the exam was sealed!
But when the results came I was shocked! I was placed 6th because the people better in rank than me had used more colours! Apparently creativity and beauty was the cynosure for judging the drawings and not logic! That meant if u drew rain, sun, some trees and an unscientific rainbow consisting of all sorts of composite colours - you are better than the guy who drew a prism, a white point source of light, a tracing paper and a VIBGYOR light that showed the correct refraction angles of the seven colours based on their wavelengths!
I was disgusted, but nevertheless mother dear was overjoyed because I was admitted as there were 10 vacancies!
2 comments:
Hello :)
Welcome back to blogging.
I guess most of these thoughts came up in retrospection. At that age I'm not even sure what a thumbs-up meant haha.
Keep going :)
yes they are introspective thoughts..was inspired by the little kid in Family Guy
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