i was a "good student" until middle-school after which i lost interest in schooling though in the last two years of high school, i was the go-to guy for "general knowledge".
two incidents i will recount where i messed up...
1. for some days in middle-school ( during my "good student" period ), i was made the class monitor, not only for my test/exam marks but also for my general good behavior... during my monitoring, there was one boy, by name mehmood, whose appearance or behavior i did not like one day... the lady teacher gave some assignment and left, putting me in charge... that boy i think made a mistake and i maybe in arrogance hit his palm with a thick ruler... after some hits he began crying... he was bigger than me but did not react... when the teacher returned, she saw the still sobbing boy and enquired with him and me... needless to say but i must, the teacher took me to task and removed me from monitorship... years later, i remembered that incident and felt bad that i had hit the boy and not been a good monitor/leader at all.
2. one time during middle-school ( i was maybe twelve ) was a girl in my class, by name padma, who began liking me... she somehow got to know of my house pet-name... i would walk to school and my route passed by her house and sometimes we saw each other en route and she would call out my pet-name repeatedly... i would get quite irritated and would do a fast walk
... one day when i reached school, a friend told me that the girl was waiting for me in the classroom and that i shouldn't go... but i went anyway... there she was with some flowers and wanting to marry me
i was shocked as you will imagine and ran out... there was another incident with her that i don't remember but a few days later, in class, i complained about her to the lady teacher, in front of the whole class... the teacher questioned the girl right there... i don't remember what happened then and whether the girl ever spoke to me again, but years later, i felt that i had been a coward in complaining about her.
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@levina -- i don't see your times in these pages though you posted a comment or two.
@hinduguy -- is that all you remember ??
@WAJsal @IrbiS @jbgt90 @friendly_troll96 @BDforever @bongbang @Nihonjin1051 @Blue_Eyes -- care to share ??