Grounding leaves

It was just a touch, by time. Getting mad?! Hey….
It was a yellow leaf; floating in breeze, finally landed on my head. You may be thinking what could be special with it Huh? Well, I say nothing.
But it was a magical touch which pulled me back to my school days. Hmmm. sounds ok?

There was a big tree (pardon me, I don’t know its name. Still the tree is there) in our school compound. Its shade covers almost quarter of our play ground. We had two trees like that; wisely cornered ones. Normally boys won’t sit under the tree. Perhaps we like to play cricket. Its roots were our gallery. But the table turns at exam times. All the students will come under it. Not only for studies. We had a belief that “if we manage to catch one leaf (only one leaf) in our palm, it will wipe out all our difficulties (we’ll surely pass the exam)”. It was too difficult as getting a pass mark. Because the leaf was too small and it will take a turn in the air, if there is any deflection in air circulation. I never managed one, but once- accidentally I had one. I hope, I cleared the fence without fail that time. :-)

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