Feel surprised to know myself as a Middle Class Dream Child!

Sometimes. life takes an uncanny twist and turns with it where a person does not know about his social presence since childhood. I remember that as a guy during the Nursery school at Lions Club International, Sector 3, Bokaro Steel City, I was much into a healthy boy from thoughts and mind and use to prepare for joining a Bigger school of our city which was Holy Cross. My father Mr. Upendra Vidyarthi, who was working at SAIL, Bokaro Steel Plant was friendly with me since childhood and me along with my sister use to ride a tricycle to Sector 4, where I carried my sister on the back seat of the cycle and my father uses to accompany me.

Those were the sweetest and the fondest of the memories and the most precious moments of my childhood where it was a daily evening chore. The whole family was an entire bunch of happy unit including my grand-parents, Two Chacha, Bua, and the entire city use to look our own. I joined Holy Cross in the year 1984 during March and till then everything was O.K. but my father has got his own quarter and we moved to a more of a different kind of neighborhood where every home as almost 3-5 children whereas the family of ours have only two children and we have to listen so many of times " Arrey aapke 2 hi bachhe hai...kharche kuch bhi nahi...etc..etc!!!

I was not very much fond of my neighbors and neither I tried to be on any kind of fighting with them barring a few instances. I got my first educational certificate and prize when I come out as First in the Class during L.K.G and I was, of course, elated but as it happens that when I reached U.K.G my Class Teacher in the parents teacher meeting told me that it is not necessary to be first in the class but it is far more necessary to understand the studies and it will make you altogether a different person in life.

I think that boomeranged in my mind as I have the habit to mug up things which are akin to a student of L.K.G or so but gradually in the question and answer during exams and its preparation my father insisted me to study on my own without the help of guides and help books and I started putting more stress on finding out the answers on my own. This lead to a continuous struggle in the evenings and I put much stress in finding out the answer and spending considerable time in giving time to my studies.

Although I was not much inclined towards maths still I use to get good numbers except when the teacher was miss Kauvery Chaudhary, whom I was hardly fond of because of her hefty attitude. Now, talking about the statement I feel surprised to know myself as a Middle-class dream child as the family has a dream of giving emphasis on education and my both "bua" i.e.Rita Ji and Rekha Ji was also educated to graduate level although from Hindi Mediums.

On the contrary, my mother's family has more show-off creatures who tried to create much of the ruckus in life and they tried to take advantage of my father's money and his worth but still, my father vehemently denied it, due to which he was not in his good books. In spite of not being popular as a person in the neighborhood, my family was the most doted one and everybody uses to give importance to us except a few by the name of Raju Rai and his family along with T.N. Pandey who was adamant in showing all kinds of bad behaviors towards us.

Also, girls across all ages use to give me much of the importance and I was becoming the cynosure of all eyes still my grandparents have put some sort of mantra in my ear which use to make me wary of girls and also any little mistake use to cost me as I was although very much dutiful towards my parents but they never allowed me to get overboard under any circumstances.

Although, the city was totally divided into the lines of two where the tag was workers and officers my father who was a born socialist was a foreman in his capacity which was the post of junior level engineer as he joined with the tag of J.O.T still he insisted to stay away from the tag of officers and took his own style akin to Dharmendra Ji whom he use to emulate without the style of flexing his muscles.

So, our life was quite a beautiful one and the surprise addition to the family was a dog which made the family complete but to say anything about our teachers I would like to say that almost all the teachers in our school were from high socialite background but they never showed any discrimination towards caste, creed and color or races belonging to any ethnicity thus making a class in their own.

Although one can say that during the earlier 80's people certainly were not inclined towards family planning, savings and investments but my father was of different thoughts and he insisted on having a family of two children and parent  and at the same time putting emphasis on educating the girl child due to which my sister Sweta completed her IHM, PUSA Bengaluru exams in a great way and today she is a great person in her own capability while I have also been on top of any career path with learning by the help of teammates and fulfilling the expectation of my manager although beaten and betrayed by people of Bokaro Steel City, still fighting back with the help of friends who are nearer than anyone else in life at this point of time!