My Unforgettable Christmas By Katherine Lightwood

My Unforgettable Christmas 

By Katherine Lightwood 

As the whole world is immersed in the bliss of Christmas, I am stuck in a cold room writing about a reality check I got two days ago. And Oh! what a reality check was that! Words couldn't even describe it. This reality check shook a part of my soul, raised many questions in my mind I never thought would ask. Gave me a new perspective of everything I never thought was possible.

Well! You might be wondering what could that be in a mundane life of mine? My friends!! My life is not very mundane any more. Rather it's getting very enigmatic and dark, taking turns in a way I didn't expected.
Sorry, If I am making you a lose your mind over this, and I apologise for that. Please allow me to describe what exactly happened from the start.
Actually I am doing a in house internship in our institute on Digital Marketing. Few students of our institute were short listed for that internship, and fortunately I was one of them. I was so honoured by that. So, as the days passed we learned a lot and tried to do the work that our mentors have taught us. And in this internship I am having some of the most eye opening experiences of my life but I will discuss that later. My main focus is on the most recent incident that happened.

It was 23rd December, I came for my class as usual, and it was Saturday. Everyone was in a very a lazy Christmassy mood. And to ignore my anxiety of sitting with a room full of people I was focusing my mind into writing a content for my fellow classmate. Suddenly, our teacher barged into our classroom. I got a bit scared, thought if we were going to get scolded for something we did wrong? He circled around everyone as he walked and joked around with other students. Then, another teacher who teaches us on page SEO came and closed the door behind him. Room gradually filled with loud chattering. Everyone was talking about a treat that they were expecting for Christmas from teachers. But, my mind was like
What!!!! Shouldn't we be throwing the party for them?
They taught us everything, they helped us to make our blog and provided us all the help we ever wanted from them. So, why the hell would they be throwing us a party when we are the one who should be surprising them. Well! I was the one women army there so I decided to shut up and not get much involved in this complicated matter. Our teacher was asking everyone what would they like to eat, as if he was granting everyone's personal wish. I wonder why would he do that. My anxiety was creeping in. I barely could keep myself on my seat. Everyone was demanding their wishlist on top of their lungs. I was sitting very silently as I did not wanted to draw too much attention.

But, man oh man! My teacher walked up to me and tapped my shoulder. I jolted back from my thought. ''Hey, what do you want to have?" He asked. I literally choked. He was drowning me in the debt of gratitude. I couldn't say a single word. After catching a long breath I only managed to say two words "Nothing Sir". The whole class laughed at my vague answer making me more uncomfortable. Then he told us to decide what we would like to have and tell them after they come back in ten minutes. My brain got all hay wired and I was feeling so wrong.
I thought to head out from that room and need discuss this with somebody a bit more trust worthy. And I thought to share this matter with our Manager who was the most manageable guy on that room. So, I called him and told him to meet me outside the room. In the mean time I was getting a hideous panic attack. My hand and feet were getting numb, I was feeling like I could faint anytime. Our manager came and sat next to me and I told him everything what I was feeling. And surprisingly I saw he was quite agreeing with me too. He suggested we should better talk to our teacher personally as if it might not be a good idea to discuss this matter among other students. At first when we went up to him and told him our concern he was kind of blank as if he was ignoring what we were saying or he was listening to us very carefully. I was really perplexed. Then after a few minutes both these teachers came back. And this time they called me personally while asking our manager to get back to his class. I was beyond scared and I really didn't know the reason. I was uncontrollably shaking. They calmed me down and asked me the reason of my concern. I tried to make them understand how they are drowning me under the debt of gratitude but one of their sentence stopped me from saying anything.
 " This is what Teacher's do". OK!! SINCE WHEN!!! Am I stuck in a limbo or the world turn itself over? Can someone make them understand that it's a student's responsibility to show the gratitude, not teachers!! Man, the world really changed!! The party started .... Everyone ate, danced and had fun. I kept watching the show while no one bothered to thank them in a proper way.

"Teachers" a very complex living beings they are. They teach, they sacrifice, they guide us silently wishing for our better future. And what we do in return? We just don't care right!! That day was really an eye opening experience for me. I got a bit of insights in the mind of teachers. And as usual they are very hard to understand. Or maybe it's me who don't understand people. Wish I could do something for them or show them a bit more gratitude as they deserve a lot more respect from us then they usually get.
And that was my Christmas celebration with my teachers and my classmates. Hope you too had an awesome Christmas time.
Now, it's time for me to 'sign out' from Creative Devils. To see more posts like this please visit our another blog Digital Decatron. You can also follow us on Facebook. Till then Merry Christmas guys.

Katherine Lightwood.