Moving on

I have disliked geography so much that I was very happy to know that in hindi, geography was called bhugol. Since there was already gol in bhugol, I could easily circle the 0s in my answer sheets and call it 'literal manifestations of me being able to understand bhugol'.
After all I am still getting gol from bhugol.

I take words very literally sometimes.

It was only a year back I got to know that literally is also an adverb,

That adds emphasis while not really being true. For eg when you say ‘dude, I literally died laughing’, Clearly means, you, did not die laughing.

My problems with ‘geography’

-          started when I could not hold the globe in my hand

So I let it stay on the teacher’s table.

The world is too heavy for me anyway

so let me just wait

and not get grades below c-level.

It started with maps and word plays. 

One of the first games I ever played was atlas.

I was the only one who could notice alas in atlas.

atlas gave me my first anagram- saalt- with a double a.

It started with mastering the art of dropping things.

In 5^th std my team lost the cricket match

because I dropped a crucial catch.

In 2^nd std I dropped a dot on comma

And I called it global comma for days

Until someone in class punctuated me

and said "that is a semicolon, shreyasi."

See I might have had a height of a badminton racket

But my self-confidence was the size of a basketball

....court

I still believe puncture is a word derived from punctuation marks.

My problems started with learning GMT

My time of birth is according to IST.

Which meant that I had to wait

for 5 and a half hours before their time zone could match my time of arrival.

I am early at most events.

I do have a problem waiting.

What I don’t have a problem is finding answers

I have given the most intelligent and stupidest answers to questions like

"Which is the pink city?"

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"Jaipur"

"What were the first living beings like?"

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"Lonely"

"What is the opposite of fresh and use it in a sentence?"

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 “when I had dinner in lunch time, I did not feel hungry.”

And just like now

Nobody understood the meaning of that line even then.

And just because I have been a master at dropping things,

Don’t expect me drop hints, every time somebody doesn’t pick up, why dinner in lunch time is opposite of fresh.

See, Stale was a word I did not know then

Or that salt is used as a preservative to preserve fresh food.

Or that our body was less salt and more saalt – with a doule a – which is to say

Our body is 40 teaspoons of salt

Which is to say that we are designed to preserve.

And now I am trying

to convert that gmt into a happy memory

so that my dementors do not preserve alas in this atlas.

So that I stop being salty to geography teachers, to all the people who made my decisions and then left me dealing with climatic fluctuations,

forgive them for all incorrect forecasts

All the directionless ways they told me - how my highway could not be built; how my compass was not magnetic enough to align itself; how my maps were not drawn to the scale; how my atlas was not flat enough-----

The world was never really flat anyway.

And may be that is why I have been carrying globes stuck to my earrings

If you ever notice, you will notice

Most earrings have globes hanging on to earlobes.

Why?

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Because

People literally want us to carry the weight of the world.

And like my hands---------- even my ears can’t carry the weight of the world.

They reject everything that is not gold.

I am still the only one who will find gol in gold.

And I am still the only one who is on the last bench

concentrating hard on the globe

that world has set so out of my reach.

My teacher says we all are meant to move the world. I stand when my name is called for attendance. I go up to her and say "Done waiting------- Need a demo". 

And with that I pushed the globe off the table.

I look up at her

and say 

"see, I moved the world"