SO What!

Today was when we all received our exam hall tickets. Our attendance was marked on it so that the principal could yell at us or give us her nod. Yes those with good attendance hardly got a smile with an obligatory ‘All the Best’. I received the second gesture as I had a whopping 90% of attendance. How? is all I wonder as I was sure I would be in the danger zone. Call it my paranoia. I know you will.
The reason I write about it is because I would like to state the reactions I received. The usual but totally unjustified. Some behaved as if due to me they will also be expected to behave the same. Some showed an attitude that seemed to say I had better things to do than you in life than attending college. Yes I would think. Mostly catching up on the sleep they lost, completing their last minute assignments. Some carried an expression that said of course you could attend college because you care about it.
If I am against bunking is it my fault or their problem? Yes, it seems that way. Why join college if you can’t spare few hours of your life? Or you simply don’t because you feel you are superior to the professors? Then how is it that you don’t top? It has become a statement. If your name is not on the defaulters list then you are not of the cool crowd of your class.
And it does not stop at this. If you won a competition, such as debate or elocution or have been awarded the best student award for that matter even nominated you are to face the jokes at your expense. Especially if a professor has commented publicly about your work then you are forever written of as the teachers pet. The privilege of the above is drained off by these sadists who are sure that they can never achieve the above.
The worst is when they become hypocrites, when they are rewarded or have a good attendance. They will behave as if this is a common thing for us, the ‘Padakus’ or the intelligent ones and that they are the geniuses who could accomplish the task. We the so called gifted ones are not to take pride in our achievements because we worked hard or it is expected of us. But if criticized in a similar manner, will react in an aggressive manner to defend their honors. They seriously are the worst among the lot of the bunch you have to tolerate in your class. The jealous and ‘wanna-bes’.
A friend asked me why I waste the space on my blog, writing about such trivial issues. But I believe that such trivial issues are the ones which truly show a peep into the reality of the person.
At the end I would like to conclude that the above characters, The jealous and ‘wanna-bes’, are the ones who criticize those to the maximum alike whom they would like to be or they disapprove of those because they themselves are criticized by their peers, parents or the people they look up to for not being like these others.