Smallest possible hope..

I gained a kind of notorious attention at my school as soon as I stepped in to my 11th std.May be I had started seeing the lighter side of life,I am accompanied with my friend started a naughty way of living at my school.Although I spent nearly 10 years at my school as an unknown entity one single year in to my higher secondary pushed me in to the all time wanted list of my school.

Although I was one of the toppers at the Matriculation examination ,it seemed negligible under the current scenario.I am not sure what I did but what ever I tried ended up infamous....

During this times of drought there came an announcement for a district level Quiz competition ,I and my friend are little curious about the general happenings so we thought we will give it a shot.

When we approached the principal room,she was not convinced and told that a team was already selected.We thought she was not confident on us and left the room,Although our intention was to give a valid attempt at the competition the thoughts of freedom for one whole day at the expenses of school was always lingering in our minds.After a couple of days we were called again by the principal but this time it was even more tougher,due to the fact that the place of competition was located in a distant rural town the other team opted out,we accepted gleefully but our principal told no expenses will be paid by the school and no teacher will be accompanying you.

Initially my parents did not allow considering the distance but when i lied that our school van is carrying me they did not mind.so did my friend's parents.

It was early morning 3'0' clock,rain has just stopped,there was no power the whole night ,my friend came with his father to my home,he whispered in to my ears that his father has come to check if we are accompanied by a teacher and also if the school van is carrying us.

with out much option we started walking from my home to our school,there were water all through the way, after a long walk we reached the school as expected no one was there to accompany us ,my friend gave a tremendous performance as if he was not expecting that ,when I was wondering what is he going to do now ,he told a lie of his life time that the van should have just started and would have probably went to pick up our school cricket team as they are having a match at the same venue,he some how convinced his father that we have to travel a bit to catch the school van.

After a 3 long hour of travel by the public bus we reached the town,that was a small town and we were expecting the school to be some where around the corner but when we traced a group of students to that school we kept walking for more than 30 mins we walked through paddy fields,duck flocks,crabs,snails,cattle herds and tamarind trees before we reached the school.It was a old grand school decorated like a bride.This competition was on account of platinum jubilee celebrations.

We did not expect much of a competition but we were surprised to see more than 100 schools there all of them neatly preparing for the competition with their teachers,we felt like two street rats hanging around without directions,we were overwhelmed with the kind of dedication and seriousness shown by the competitors.

After registration we had more than a hour for the competition we did not have any clue how to kill the time(Boys School :<).We found a team next to us from a very famous school when we introduced ourselves there was an obvious wicked grin looking at us and our school.I tried to go through a Sura's GK refresher with out any success,we threw all the books aside and just continued to remain hopeless.

The competition started,there were a total of 8 rounds, we were planning for the rest of the day as we were sure to get knocked down right in the first round.But something unusual happened, we got through the first round pretty easily...now what?

All of a sudden something stroked my mind ,I told my friend this competition seems something achievable now why can't we start focus to try hard ,'Why can't we pray?,before getting in to each around ,I am seeing a winning way out',I don't know why did I said so,seemed funny and impractical but to keep our hopes alive we did not have any other go.

It happened and it happened and .....and .....and ....again and again now we are in the final round.....!!!. I was not able to believe that we are sitting with all top schools in the podium,we were not expecting questions from personality identification,film music,English grammar and translation in a district level quiz competition and that too in final.surprisingly all the team performed so badly and guess what.... we are the winners of the whole competition...

We really had no clue where did we pulled out this from,when we sequenced the events of the whole day and hard toil to reach this spot we were speechless.We thanked god and we left the place pushing over people due to the immediate stardom.

It was 11 0 clock in the night when we reached our town,we walked straight to the principal house to see her mouth wide open and we did.

we never knew how big was that until we saw our names in the next day news paper and added to that we got our prizes from the 'Education Minister'.no more I was notorious at school.

....A smallest possible positive hope can do the biggest possible things for you...keep walking!