Dear School,
I appreciate that you told me who Mahatma Gandhi was! I also liked that photograph of his hanging on the wall of my principal’s cabin. I appreciate how you presented the case history of Adolf Hitler before me. I know who Alice, Cindrella, Aladin were! I also am thankful to you for making me learn and mug up all the historical names and dates some belonging to millions of years back!

I really appreciate your memory and knowledge about this world.

But one person you missed altogether my dear and that was Me! You forgot to tell me who I was? You chose to completely omit speaking about me!
You made me competent enough to win this world but what about winning myself? Many times a day I have to accept defeat from myself! All my winnings that I bring home prove simply insufficient to make me happy. Just a day or two that’s it!

Even with millions of people in this world I feel as if I am in a no man’s land. Running in this endless joust I feel that I have been running on a treadmill for all my life. I feel like crying!

I have tried everything from shopping, love making, drinking to driving, traveling, money making and so on. But I find myself nowhere! Where am I? Where does my happiness lie?

You are the most intelligent and logical person I know. Please tell me who am I? and where am I? How could I become happy?

As you advised me, I have tried competing and defeating my brothers and sisters but it doesn’t serve the purpose. As you told me, I earned money but again in vain. As per your advise, I did my bachelors then post graduation and also earned a professional degree but again in vain.

You told me ‘become like this and that’. But I can see that all your ‘this and that’ are, or have been, themselves in mentally unstable condition and could never become happy in their lives!

Either you reply to my question or refund my school fee for all those twelve long years that I gave to you! 🙂