My Timeline
Phase 1 : Campus life
As my father served in the Indian Air Force 'defence' (air force doesn't simply mean flying fighter jets guys), he was posted to a new city every 3-5 years. So we lived in different cities for the first 13 years of my life. I was born in Ambala (Haryana) and lived there for a year though I belong to Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.
Chennai
We moved to Tambaram Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and stayed there for 5 years.
I did my nursery, lower kindergarten and upper kindergarten from here at Air Force school.
Definitely learned to walk and speak here only.
Lonavala
After that we headed to Lonavala (Maharashtra). A beutiful hill station where it rains for 4-6 months a year which consisted of many continuous 24-hour non-stop rains lasting from weeks to months! We saw many-many sankes, chameleons, crabs, rats, frogs in our own campus and once an indian monitor lizard called Goh literally entered our quarter(apartment)! And no we never faced any flood like situations because it was a Hillstation! All the water went down the hills! I dont know about the people living down there lol. It was all green mountains everywhere and if you would turn 360 degrees standing at one place you would see 4 to 5 beautiful waterfalls on different mountains very far away. We stayed there for 3 years and I completed my classes 1-3 there from Kendriya Vidyalaya central government school.
Ferozepur
Our next stop was Ferozepur (Punjab) at the border of India and Pakistan. Firozpur city was a developed area but our campus was in an outer location surrounded by large crop-farms away from the city. Doesn't sound a good place to live right? Even my family got worried when we first reached there in the midnight with our luggage but life inside an air force campus is so good that you can't care less about how green the crops are outside the boundary! I lived for 4 years here and did my classes 4-7 from Army Public School. As we know that there are generally 4 houses in indian schools wo I was voted for house captain of primary wing by the students of my house but then became the school vice captain for primary wing through 5 filtering rounds. It was tuff back then bro I swear (every single person of my class refused to take the school captain badge in 12th standard even without any filtering rounds). I was here when the corona virus outbreak happened across the globe. The news felt like fictionol zombie apocalypse scenario. The country was instructed to lock down. Schools shut, parks empty and everyone inside their homes. Online classes began and we muted ourselves to play online multiplayer games with our friends haha. My class 7th and 8th were completely online or more like they got skipped. I do not know what was inside the textbooks of those two grades as we googled the answers in exams. That's why I larned how to divide fractions in 10th grade the hard way. My father was tested covid-19 positive twice! mother once. Me and my sister were not but we felt like we did had it in between as all 4 of us were living together, maybe we were just not tested while positive. Who cares. We survived.
We went to our next destination while corona virus was still around as I said that I did my classes 4-7 in ferozepur and classes 7-8 passed in covid, when we moved here I still did online classes for an year. The place where everything changed for me. It's Delhi....
Phase 2 : Fun continues outside campus
Living in capus was really a blissfull experience and it shaped my mind in wonderful way as I took dance classes and played like a dozen of different sports throught the year. The mornings were school but the evenings were games and we chose a sport to play for a few months then switch while also doing random enjoyable stuff. Your brain develops whenever it learns new things and I became good in every sport plus a fast learner. I also became good in studies like being a topper till 6th grade required no effort. But after covid... We got nerfed as we stopped studying for 2 years.
Moved to Delhi where we didn't get a quarter in a campus because there is more work than campus space, therefore we had to wait 4 years to get one. So we lived at a rented flat in Palam, Delhi.
Class 9th and 10th
I joined Kendriya Vidyalaya no. 2 Delhi cantt and this is where everyting happened this time as I'm not in a campus anymore. For the first time I had to go out in the streets to the defence bus stop which is not a protected campus area so my parents did worry at the start but eventually we learned it. This thing escalated so quickly that we took our own flat in Dwarka Sector-23 (because my father retired from the air force and joined a bank) and I travelled by e-rickshaw then Metro and then DTC bus all alone just to go school every single day. It was a big school with 3000 students at a time and it literally has 2 shifts so 6000 students. I was enrolled in 2nd shift which ran from 12:30 pm in the afternoon to 6 pm in the evening. I always reached home in the night. At this school I made amazing friends, whom I will hold-onto anyhow till the end of my life. We have so many crazy stories that I seriously can't even tell here. It was so peakkk that only me and my friends who lived it can understand. Some stories which won't cross the limits if I mention here include finding a Praying Mantis (Female and they can't fly) in the school corridor and one of my friends kept it for 10 days then we released it in the grass; breaking my leg at the school then going to my cousin's wedding, dancing on one leg and giving 3 out of 6 of my 10th class board exams on a wheelchair and still somehow scoring the best in my section. I also joined a weekend classes offline batch of a coaching institue - Physics Wallah, just because my friends were also going their and we had a lot of fun on weekends too. It also has wild stories. It was affordable at the time and we thought we will study there, that is why our parents also agreed but none of us practically studied there; we only studied in the gap days of the exams. Every day together was a fun movie. And the best part is I still have them and the people matter far more than the place and time. So even if not every day, but the day we meet again becomes the best fun movie!
Attaching the photos and videos outside of card so that the card background image still looks good.
The mantis
At wedding with a plaster on broken leg
PW coaching weekend batch
Phase 3 : Competitive Exam (JEE)
I transferred my school to Kendriya Vidyalaya BSF Camp Chhawla Delhi because of many reasons : second shift was almost taking my whole day; the travel time and expense was too high; some of my friends took admission in dummy school to prepare for competitive exams and some got into different sections due to stream change so the school became terrible now; I wanted to save time and work towards my own goal.
Class 11th and 12th
Now It is very personal but I joined the school with a thought in my mind that I would not make any friends here and only do my work and also hold-onto my previous school friends; but I did make a friend somehow that destiny wanted. So, I personally did not wanted to take the PCM stream or prepare for JEE exam at first, but almost everyone just had to do it because of our parents I guess. It was getting difficult to prepare for the exams and work for my goal at the same time and my father told me that if I secured a government engineering college seat then he himself will support me to achieve my goals and it did made sense at that moment as I saw the seniors struggling for even a job so keeping a backup is legitimate... Sooo.. I paused working at my goals for a year and by that time I actually wanted to crack this exam. Like seriously I wanted to get top rank and I didn't even cared about the college seat because I wanted to make my life story legendary and also add this title to it. But that's the case with almost every student here (millions). Almost every single one who started for any exam wanted to get like All India Rank 1 or the top college and we have indefinite number of memes about it too which everyone finds relatable that quotes "Students entering 11th class thinking they will study-hard and get All India Rank 1" but that Same Dream was because of a reason.... Even if I didn't care about engineering, I dreamt for the best I can be. I dreamt to live the best life and have the best story. Every single one of us did. That was because we believed everything was possible when we were kids.... When we didn't saw the limitations the system and environment makes around you as you grow old. Because we were NOT BORN WITH LIMITS. But with time you start to believe in this shit. Your mind gets shaped differently. By 11th class many of us were convinced that wee can't be at the top of the world but believed that rank 1 in an exam like this was still possible. Now fuck it we don't even believe that! But I do. And I did throughout this whole journey. I admit that I didn't study like the requirements of this exam but still I believed. I was never ready to give up or even compromise in my mind even till death. Might sound dramatical but its real. And this is why I fought countless fights in my own mind for the competitive exam and class 12 board exams. I would think to study and I rejected doing everything else but still I wouldn't study and then I regretted the wasted time. This loop was played many days. I encountered many lows like almost on a daily basis. I mentally reached the lowest point I have felt in my life.. Twice. But I think that's what made journey great and meaningful. I understood why people commit suicides. After believing till the last day and seeing a dream actually break, I got to the place that makes a man either give it all up and stop worrying or go after it all, so I understood how some people lose it one day, in both ways. Both exams finished at an okay-ish result at the end because luckily God is always with me and God literally does everything in my case and I have countless proofs of that. Now when I am typing this, I know it was not that deep and literally no one needs to worry this much about an exam, which you guys must be saying while reading this. And actually this shit doesn't even matter if you look at your whole life. Its just a fucking designed rat-race under a corrupt system (not just limited to a country). I feel how poor from the inside are the makers of this system. Motherfuckers got enough wealth to retire and live the same luxury for the rest of their lives and the same for their upcoming seven generations too and still run behind money and power and abandon morals, self-respect, humanity. Wait, kind of same madness I was having for this exam when it didn't even mattered to me lol. But how can I let these guys decide my limits and what I think. I will live it MY WAY. One thing I am gonna carry from this journey is that never givig up attitude or ego or delusion or whatever you call it. It is required a hundred percent. That will be my reference mindset. And secondly, I shouldn't have stopped working at my own goal. It matters more and I should do other things side by side with it.
Okay so as this went completely philosophical, I am mentioning some normal things which also happened in this period :
I got jaundice the very next day I joined the school in 11th class and came back after a month directly in an exam. People thought I changed school again or I mysteriously came for one day and disappeared. A girl asked me if this school had a dummy or open schooling option that I took Lol.
I was going to school by Rapido (a service where you can book a bike ride to your destination online) but it was uncertain at the time of afternoon in that place to find a captain to drive me back home so we bought an EV scooty for me which I learned to drive in a month of my 12th class summer vacation by practicing for one hour every day in the damn parking lot of our building.
One thing about studyies : You only score good by studying at the last moment till class 10th here bro. I didn't score shit after class 10th. Just a bit in 12th boards. After 10th, its only possible by really hard studying (atleast in Science stream)
I insisted my parents and we went to the Maha-Kumbh Mela 2025 held in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh at the Sangam (union point) of three holy rivers - Ganga, Yamuna and now disappeared Sarasvati. A normal Kumbh mela takes place every 12 years but this Maha-Kumbh mela takes place after 12 full complete Kumbh Mela cycles which is 144 years!! So this was once in a lifetime experience. It is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage where you take bath in the holy river at Brahma Muhrat (around 3-4 a.m. in the morning).
Yeah I was checking if the floating bridge shakes in that video.
After class 11 finished, I roamed in a forest with my old school friends.
I was studying from online batch of that PW institute for jee. I joined a library just one month before JEE. I totally approve studying in a library. This shit is good. The environment really matters a lott!
The mask is for really high pollution in winters in delhi. First two photos are from library and the rest are just from my home study time for during JEE prep.
At the ending of class 12th when there was scribble day, dumb me was ignoring it and going to home but it clicked after like 200 meters and I took a U-turn from my scooty to join it. A good memory. Here are scriblle day and some other school time photos.
Teacher's day and Partyy
And ofcourse the farewell party I attended at the end of 12th was not of this school... It was the OG Babyy!
Phase 4 : Between School & College
Upcoming...