Corridors are an integral and dominating part of a educational institution. It is here that ideas are born and discussed, organizations given shape and gossip spread. It is the place that holds all our secrets and those of around us. These are the places that are our retreat from the environment of the classrooms. We listen, hear, talk, sit, stare, stand and walk these very corridors, never knowing that as time flows it will take some of us to our own different destinies from the gossip corridors of the show business to the power corridors of the country. politicians are trained in these very corridors with some of them sharpening their debating skills on their sometimes uninterested friends and actors are bred in the corridors acting out scenes from their favorite movies.
During recess times these corridors are abuzz with activity. One can see various groups of students dressed in one uniform dress spread at equidistance from each other like repelling atoms in a mass. There is often one center and there are many revolving electrons all busy making their own circles in their own peculiar ways, adding to the hum and buzz of the atmosphere. Some are complaining about the heat wave and how it makes them sweat in the classrooms and others bragging about how they made it to this recess without being punished by that cruel teacher and the rest contemplating on the best ways to miss the remaining day of school.
I have had a chance to look and walk these corridors when this activity is at rest, in the after school hours. It is not a very relishing sight. It is just the empty corridors and the dusty wind that is piercing hot. After all beauty lies in the eyes of the observer only because he/she knows and can appreciate the context. Otherwise there is no beauty to begin with. We don't appreciate beauty per say but we appreciate the context of a situation only.
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