Always the last-bencher!!

Wooowiieee... I was sitting on the last bench again today. I felt so good, saw like all those back-bencher days were coming back to me.
Ever since I can remember I have always been a last-bencher. In school, I can recall those endless giggly-sessions, phaltu bets, playing with your pen-rattlers, making music outta nothing, eating in periods, face-makings, The X-0, bingo games :) ... Its like there is a whole new world out there. Its where your most creative thought pop out and they are well applauded there.
Its where you make these friends for life. Its where you see the world on a big, bigger canvas. You can see everything from another, na.
There's this special place in my heart for -Mat, Ras, Stan. The last benchers of Std.X A, 2000.
Sometimes growing, sharing and living becomes so nice and easy with some people. I will always always and cherish that time of life. I really thought that i was lost in this new place (school) and they really made feel home.
In college, the attendance was so low... and even if u sat on the last bench... You were anyways on the first... Anyways, I lived my moments of glory in MA again. I guess I never wanted the teachers to influence me. The "We don't need no education" is ingrained into my brain a bit too much. I never understood 1st/2nd rank way of educating myself. I understood teachers pet, question & answers way of learning, I always want to find my way of living and learning.... Thats the way it has been for me.
I was always reading, learning all non-degree related books, magzines, journals throughout my grad days. Chatting over chai and having the most valuable conversations of my life. Bunking lectures and watching films at film fests. Jumping up all possible co-curriculars, not necessarily to participate but to jump around. Walking out on professors bcoz they didn't have anything to offer.
So, here's a salute for all those days for making me what I am... like 'The Vultures'!! :)