My High School Life

 By anonymous alumnus

Recalling one day of my life in the yesteryears,

Especially during the time when I was a high school student of my alma mater.

Never did I realize that my life was checkered with a feeling of shame, adventures and happiness

Along with this, I can’t forget the times when I had my first adventure of expressing my emotions of   

puppy love to my classmate that made me a laughing stock of our class, my first ever drinking spree that I had with my buddies to explore the pleasant taste of a bottle of wines at a makeshift store at the back of our school that made me felt like crazy at the English Class of our adviser as if the universe was turning upside down and all the girls I met seemed so beautiful and sexy, and my first ever attempt to make a jungle crawl like a CAT trainee under the Main  Building out of curiosity of what were a handful of senior students looking for beneath the holes of Science Room under the cover of darkness and extremely unusual surroundings

Taking some of these shameful experiences at the back of my mind for several decades now, I could sigh with laughter everytime their memories are coming back as though they happened only yesterday

Of course, I would never forget the wonderful moments that brought happiness to my parents and loved ones when my name was included in the top ten of our class and was awarded with medals and honors in the different academics and sports competitions I participated in and most especially when I passed the scholarship grants from various colleges and universities during my senior year that relieved their financial obligation for my collegiate expenses

Pondering all these memorable experiences, both bad and good, for quite some time from the vantage position of what I am now, I could say with pride that all these things have fortified my character and shaped my destiny in life

Although I had numerous shortcomings and even failed expectations, I never had any rancor and bitterness of my high school life because they were part of my boyhood growth and, there is no mistake about it, God even knew that I did the best as I could be with the gifts and talents He has given me in those early formative years

Life is never meant to be always success and triumphs; it must be showered with sorrow and failures so that I can remember fully well the golden memories of my struggle that can never be forgotten for a lifetime…

Giving all my youthful hope and aspirations a backbone of support to rely on with so much energy, passion and strength which were nurtured at the hallowed ground of my alma mater

And as the days, months and years pass by, I shall always look back at my life at BNHS as one of the important events and battles in my life that greatly molded and shaped me into my manhood…

Now perhaps you know who I am as you read the first letter of my lines, but least I forget, this is not just my high school life but could be the life of anyone else of Batch ’83