BECOMING AISH! BREAKING THE ICE! GOING MAD!

All our life we have something or the other that we keep waiting for. Like the first date, the first kiss, the first job, the day you get married, and for MAD people like us, we look forward to ICE BREAKERS! That’s the first day we meet our kids. August 20, was my day to explore the real MADness.  

All I knew from days ago was that, this Saturday wasn’t one of the regular Saturday’s. Full night before I was juggling with options of things I would do with the kids, the games I would play and thinking of every other way to get them fall in love with me.

Just before I was leaving, I thought, come on! It’s just 4 little girls. And I’m good with kids. So probably the things will fall right into the mould and it’ll be a cake walk! But you know; Life throws lemons at you whenever your cocktail is over sweet. And Tadaaa! I was late by half an hour! The worst possible loop hole I could be trapped in.

Nonetheless, I reached the place. The distance from the main door to the classroom was a 5 min brisk walk. But these 5 minutes were like ages in my head-mind-heart! Damn! How will it go? Will they love me? Will I be one of their awesome teachers? Will I have somebody looking upto me saying ‘ma’am I love you’? And while I was walking, there were these little eyes which were staring at me, looking from the corridors, running away from us, smiling faintly; All asking me to do some magic on them, and make everything in their life perfect. Aaaaaah! 5 minutes and tons of questions were popping up. 

And then I entered my class, saw the girls. The nervousness, the apprehensions came to a halt! At first, one of them was sad and wanted to go away, but things changed after an hour. I’ll get to that a little later. Others were shy and hesitant. But then somehow we started. We asked them to introduce themselves along with the things they love to do. To our surprise, all they wanted was to get clicked and dance. I’d taken tiaras for each one of them, because that’s one thing that clicks with all the girls, throughout the world. Every girl loves to be pampered and be treated like a princess. I wanted them to feel that way. And they did!

This was it! I found the key to their hearts. And in no time, they were dancing to Jalebi Bai’s, singing at the top of their voices to dhinka-chika and making me groove along with them! There was no stopping them! In next 10 minutes, I was surrounded by 30 little girls from 4, everybody wanting to have a share of the tiara, dance with me, and get clicked, and the bestest of all, Hug me. 

I became their Aishwarya Rai and Michael Jackson man! Like really! Never in my life have I loved Aishwarya Rai this much. Seriously. No offence! :P

The feeling of a kid hugging you with all the faith, trust, dreams and hope covered up in its arms cannot be sufficed in words. They look upto us with faith in their little-big eyes, hoping that we’ll make their dreams come true. And this is when the transformation from ‘THE’ kids to ‘MY’ kids happens.

There are very few things in life worth giving up all your other dreams for. This became one of mine. I can easily give up taking a job, moving to another city, travel or hang out with friends-family, at their stake. I really want them to grow, and be someone big, and then remember me, as one of their favorite crazy teachers. If not the best, then probably one of them.

The worst moment was to come back home, seeing some of their teary eyes, hearing “Ma’am, don’t leave us” and getting a Taaaiiiggghhhttt hug, a little more tightly than the word itself! Oh! And the girl, who wanted to go away, was so busy hugging and loving me that she forgot what her mind was filled with, an hour ago. And then I heard “Ma’am I love you “, in chorus! That was it! Pure bliss! :D

I have MY KIDS with me now. That’s a life PERFECTLY lived in an hour! Aaah! “meraa jaadoo cha gaya!” Yay! :D

Now, I wait for weekends desperately and MADly! Right now, my head is busy playing Natasha Bedingfield’s song- Again: “So I do it…. all over…. again, for you!” And honestly, I’ll do ALL OVER AGAIN! Any-F-time!!