(My Village, My City, My School)

The most important thing about any sustainable success is its foundation. The foundation is built upon subtle things like small good habits, values, ecosystems, and education. Also, if these subtle things are taken care of well from the early days; the impact is compounded over time. It will shape the future of the person, society, state, and country. While reading this, you might be in a different city, state, or timezone, and for that, your school played an essential role.

Many successful personalities like Abdul Kalam, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Sudha Murthy worked on subtle things like reading, doing the same thing over and over, and leading a disciplined life. And many of them are still doing it after reaching heights of success.

This year, we visited our foundations, i.e., schools, during summer break. Like any other private and public school, it is providing foundational skills to its new entrants (students) in respective classes.

The village school is more than 100 years old, as my father and uncle studied there. To match with digital transformation across the country and world, it now has a separate computer class with some electronic accessories. And students have limited access to modern internet tools, but they have curiosity and hunger to learn, which are more essential. While interacting with them, we came to know about their ambitions, which are not ordinary.

• Cybercrime specialist
• Lawyer
• Doctor
• Teacher
• Farmer

The below summaries show their determination to know and learn something new which is different from their regular textbook. Also, this is only possible with the support of the teachers, the backbone of any school. Some tools need to be updated with time.

From Books: Atomic Habits, Wise and otherwise, Who will cry when you die, I came upon a lighthouse.

Your experience may trigger current students to come back to school in the future.

We, human beings, are always busy, and we have long lists of to-dos. If possible, try to visit your school and college once a year (or whenever you get a chance) and share your experience, which may trigger someone to think differently or give direction to reach heights. The public institutions need it most where resources are less, not the curiosity. And for sure, you will feel good, and it will be a great personal contribution back to the society. I am neither the first one nor the last one to go out (or come back) from school.

Better late than never.

Thanks to Subodh Sir (from Korei High School), Sai Sir and Kumuda Sir (from Adasha School) and Archana Mam (from Capital High School) for helping in this process.

Like we share pictures when we visit new places or meet old friends, our school is waiting for us to share its picture.