Dear Sir,
With due respect, I beg to say that I’m suffering from
fever since last night so I’ll not be able to attend the school. Request you to grant me leaves for two days.
I shall be highly obliged.
Yours truly,
-
XYX
It had been more than twenty years, a young lad, studying in
4th std., had written this piece of content to inform his class teacher
that he was down with fever and requesting to take two days leave.
His dad, while going his way to office, had got it
signed-off from his class teacher. The poor student was relaxed that he had
poured an immense amount of respect while asking for leave and he would not be
tortured for not being present in the class.
After two days, though he was still feeling weak, he went to
school and was made target of torture. His class teacher didn’t inform other subject
teachers about his sanctioned leaves and they didn’t fail to punish him for the
mistake he never did. Adding to his dismay, he had been forced to complete
whatever had been taught in those two days in utter urgency.
The most brutal maths teacher had got a significant reason
to demonstrate his brand as an ‘Epitome of Terror’ and he did it perfectly. English teacher had trapped him asking to spell
‘Discipline’ and ‘Etiquette’, the two new words he had taught the day before
and then he used his entire vocab to insult him. He knew that insult would last long to heal
for a sincere guy. The poor boy kept screaming - ‘I was on leave’ but the
trauma continued.
He doffed his self pride to those who never deserved. Now
After twenty years, he is a mature man, he regrets on his words. His mugged up application contained four words
(respect, beg, request, oblige), kneeling down his soul in mere five lines. Was
he a slave deployed to build the Great Wall of China and dared to ask for
leave?
-Amit Roop
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