Integrity ( a short story written by me; everything bee knows)
Integrity ( a short story written by me; everything bee knows)
What I'm going to write now has to do nothing to the word integrity nor I'm gonna tell it's meaning or illustrate it. But still this passage is related to that word. So here it starts by me going to my class after a month long vacation seems boring but excited to meet friends. We had this new subject's first lecture and my friend was excited to see who is going to be the new lecturer also at the same time anticipating that it will be a regular lecture as usual. So we were all set with new books to get started with new subject.As we entered the class, Bam! We get our first shock our seats had been acquired by someone else. So we had to sit somewhere at the backside that is the last benches. Now one would think that last benches are seats for the coolest. No I my class last benches are for the unfortunate ones. The tortourus place you can find over there. Not a single fan facing there and full of humidity. Second bam! Which was not an actual bam we quite knew about it. We got to sit with lots of mosquitoes. Alright we'll sacrifice some blood for these poor thirsty blood suckers. But third bam! Was having our old sir teaching us the subject. Though it was super fun afterwards but initially we thought this is going to be a torcherous 2hours of our life.
Lectures started and sir had this awesome enthusiasm because he had watched his favourite hero's movie before the lecture as he said. Anyways he went on teaching the definition of the subject. While explaining each of the words and relating them to all the mischief and frauds done by students for getting cultural week holidays from classes. He was explaining each point from the perspective of a student and precisely living the life of a student as it goes through a cultural week.
Normally a cultural week in Mumbai colleges consist of saree day, traditional days and some other days like retro,black n white, angel and devil,etc depending on the college. And students have to dress up according to the theme of the day. These are the days when the colleges are house full even the ones who are not seen through out the year are found on these days. The college campus is happening with girlies all dressed up and boys trying to impress. Some of the students don't give a damn on those days (like me) and some spend hours for deciding their look. But it is something that nobody wants to miss. We all had celebrated these days by wearing the uncommon outfits for us. Complimenting each other and clicking pictures and selfies with friends. Some people just turn out to be celebs on these days. Everyone especially boys don't miss the chance to click selfies and pictures with this person( most probably a girl). But after the semester exam the dullness of college comes back with these days. So we tried out best to manage our coaching classes with the days. But some days it was unmanageable and people started bunking, spreading rumors of cancellation of lectures and so on. Sir was telling about all this while teaching somehow making sense with it and as we go through the lecture comes the fourth bam!
Here comes the part the word comes in context, and that played with my mind for some days. Me being a bit better with words according to that sir. He keeps on asking me meanings of words which are unheard by my fellow classmates. I've always been up there answering right meanings. But then he launched this bomb on me, he asked me what's the meaning of integrity. As I've read some polity books I knew the meaning of it as being together, undivided, unity,etc. That didn't happen to work. He corrected me that it's for being honest and being firm to morals. I started questioning my mind how can I not know about this, according to what I've read from now on I've been knowing the meaning as that. I kept on contemplating about it the whole time of the lecture. My cheeks were blazing heat with embarrassment the feeling was ugghhhh! But then I was so determined to know it's meaning. I came home googled it and found both the meanings for that word. I think sir didn't know the other meaning of the word. But not his fault.
Next day, I made up my mind to show that sir that I was right, that my meaning was right and you didn't acknowledged it. My mind went from furiously defending myself to being a mature person knowing the truth and being good with it. I was right all the time but the other meaning meaning of integrity holds true as well which was a learning lesson for me. These are like some moments of life which are so minor but still holds up in the mind forever. Now furthermore in future if a come across 'Integrity' this scene will flash up in my mind. Life is full of this things which makes no sense but that little touch of embarrassment leaves a trail of story behind. And in Future , looking back, gives an interesting scene to peek over and relive with friends.
Hope you guys like this short story. Everything written here is fictional. Circumstances may relate to someone but it's truly coincidental. Let me know the new style of my writing and write up in comments for any corrections and suggestions. Thanks for reading.❤️
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