Actual Lessons to Understand!

From the time we are born through

The time, on our own that we start to stand

And till the eternity as it seems we have to understand

A feeble memory exists in the memory

When first was I asked, "Did you under stand?"

Sports I played hard and hurt many a times

Always it begun with a failure which I could hardly stand

Spell bound with game intricacies

That I tried hard to understand

Sportsmanship, Fair play & the patient endurance

Were the actual lessons I had to understand!

Books I read to score good and to top

Read & practiced till I knew it by heart

Thinking sometimes about the wisdom of history

Can it be sometimes be really of any use to me

And the geographical boundaries could I really travel

But then it struck that Education actually

Gives knowledge more than you need 

And

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand

Being small I always wanted to grow up

But growing up destroyed many many small childhood joys

Being an audience I always wanted to anchor

Anchoring though gave me highs and pleasure

But calmness of being Audience was lost forever

With pleasure of something that was conquered

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand

While Learning to drive I loved to gaze at pace

When the fear was conquered,

It was thrilling in its own ways

But all in all it was not that worth the risk

Neither the race nor the reckless breeze

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand

In the frames of general usual passing life

In a spontaneous growing old we learn that we should grow wise

Joys & sorrows which shows friends & seasonal friends like wise

Learning to shrug the failure & the criticism was nice

And Nicer was separating stupid comments alike

An unending learning, continuously unfolding an interesting mystery

Thereby making a small regular each one of us’s Life

Challengingly beautiful in its own way & style

Rather than just a repeat of anyone else’s History & Lifestyle

And

And

And that’s the actual lesson I had to understand!
-Kiran Hegde