Power hunger

From the layers of flashback, I could vaguely recap those sweet memories of the bygone days. Those were the days when teachers were the daunting ghost in a broad daylight. The moment when I heard or saw teachers come by, I would have distanced myself a miles away through thick bushes just to hid and escape from being seen. The next in the list comes the captainship. Some incident hasn’t yet lost its warmth in my memory. I can remember, roaming was thin the school campus trying to pick-up litters, clean the drains and maintain flower gardens under the various weather conditions primarily to perform my duties and secondarily to escape from the wrath of captain.

But however, especially on Saturday being half day off, we use to have one or two classes at the max and sometimes we never use to have classes at all. Therefore, that day was usually the day meant for conducting most of the physical activities and heavy works in the school. Depending upon our age and strength our teachers use to divide and allocate different kinds of work to every student. Among many, myself and a gang who all are under same age and same grade normally used to fall under the category of sweeper, grass cutter or drain cleaner.

My teachers are so clever so that to let us do work sincerely and for better effectiveness one among us would be appointed as captain based on their interest or looking at the capability of leading the team. And this captainship is for a short period, normally ranges from 30 mins to an hour or seldom remains for a day. Sometimes teachers let us select our captain and there will one unanimous agreed one. Occasionally at a time there would be more than one nominee which further leads to conduct lucky draw as an election. Interestingly, one tends to support their relatives and close friends for that very title or post. The very reason behind electing close knit tones is to draw advantage of escaping from getting beaten.

No sooner did they acquire the title of captain their power comes on the tip of the stick and enforces his peers in carrying out the assigned task. On other way he don’t have any option than to use his physical force with his mates to come up with good result, otherwise captain will be liable for whatever may be the outcome. Because teachers used to warn them of punishment he/she might have to face later on failing to come up with required work result.

Most of the time I was among the most victimized group by receiving nice whipping and bashing from captains. I do remember tears rolling down my cheeks with mind full of anguish and undercurrents desired towards captain out of intolerable pain. Impromptu dramas of uprising tussles between captain and members were so natural and many petty issues always appeared later on which was linked with such incident. Many incidents probed when there was young blood’s emotion clash between workers and captains. However my lucky days didn’t  go Un-leveraged until I too was given a responsibility to lead a group in carrying out grass cutting task around the Principal’s resident quarter. 

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