ZOMBIE EDUCATION

Everyday i mechanically get up at 7 with the help of aparna and take a most unwilling shower and eat the salty blob that they serve under the presumed name of breakfast . i see walking zombies everyday . everyday in my class i see them . completely dead people with miniscule feelings and even lesser aspirations and dreams . it is as if they have never learned to dream . Abdul Kalam once said 'dream big , dreaming small is a crime' . someone seriously needs to tell these people this . everyday i see them . i witness the hollow and meaningless smiles and laughter they share , the unwilling jokes they crack all on the outside whereas deep beneath they want to hide something . they dont want to tell everything to even their best pals . i see them , i see them everyday . some studying , some listening to their freinds , some to music , some trying to figure out what the teacher has been talking for the past hour and some like me lost in the oblivion blissfully staring into nothingness . i want to go up to them and tell them , stop . dont do this . dont do this to yourself , dont do this to your parents , dont do this to your family , dont do this to your freinds , dont do this to me . i want to wake them up from their slumber in which their true identities have been since long and ask them 'do you really want to do this , are you really interested ' . i dont see the point in doing something all your life which you are not least interested in , which you are indifferent to , which you dont care about . dont they have dreams like me dont they want to see the world dont they want to take a break and just sit and reflect on all that they have gone through . just take a second and think , do you really want to do this . i dont want to be a lawyer has this ever crossed your mind ? most probably not because even the way you think has been fixed , you cant think beyond your boundries . you have been taught what to dream . parents say dream but the intrinsic meaning , the hidden meaning is - dream our dreams . i want to live , i want to breath , i want to dream , i want to love and be loved . please