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A Tribute to 11 Years in Loyola School

//This was written by me to celebrate our graduation from std10

For most of us in the batch of std 10, it has been 11 long years in Loyola. But it seems strange how all those 11 years come back to our minds in a flash, for on 29th, we graduate. Loyola has been like a whole life for us. We have faced, in the past 11 years, everything we are going to face in life. We have seen successes and the joy it propagates; we have seen failures and have suffered its sorrows. We have also had experience of the good side of life, also of the not so good sides of life and how to deal with them. But it is in these dark days of life that Loyola has taught us one of the best lessons in life, never give up. It is easy to recognize a Loyolean from a crowd of ‘others’. He will be one with the greatest presence of mind, the gift of the gab and quick common sense. Many of the ‘others’ have told me that Loyoleans seem to have a ‘don’t give a damn if I lose attitude’ which irritates them. Well don’t you think that the same attitude can be worded as a ‘never say die attitude’? And after all, we are inexperienced in losing. Another of Loyola’s gifts to students is wit, which definitely sets us apart. A Loyolean also has a sense of confidence which gives him an edge over the others. It is said that just two things make up a man, his personality and his background. Our family, culture and heritage have given us our background, and Loyola has given us our personality. It is this ‘Loyolean Spirit’ which is embedded in each one of us that gives us the various ‘attitudes’ in right proportions. It is because of that ‘Loyolean Spirit’ that a Loyolean stands apart wherever he goes. And Loyola does not really comprise of the humongous buildings and the various facilities, but actually of its teachers, administrators, Principal, Vice Principal, and workers. They are the ‘ones’ who have shaped us. To quote Rudyard Kipling, “If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty second of distant run, Yours is the Earth and everything’s that’s in it And – which is more – you’ll be a man, my son.” Indeed, Loyola has turned us into men from boys. Indeed, Loyola has filled those sixty seconds with a valuable distant run, but not to the end of some race, instead for the take-off of life. Indeed, it is the end of this chapter, just for the beginning of a new discourse. Indeed, it now feels the saddest hour of the day to be ending ICSE education in Loyola, but only for a new day to dawn.

Srijan Das 12-'D' Loyola School