The year was 2000!..

It didnt start off too badly..I was 16 and in standard XI. The winter was really chilly, but most of the other things warm enough. Had my exams in march..went off pretty smooth. I guess it all started somewhere in march ..ya..during the PTA, when I was supposed to be shown my report card. That burning feeling in the stomach.ah..it hurt!. thought it was temporary. Nah.It lingered on for some time, erupting at random periods. But the pain-due to acidity was really bad(Hadnt experienced nething worse than that). The new session in school had started. And I started thinking that things are normal now. The classes in school, the ones in the coaching institute, and ofcourse the rest of the things in home pretty much normal. 28th May-my grandmother passed away. Something trigerred off from there, I guess. Went to bhubaneswar, along with my parents for her funeral. I was initially reluctant about going there, since i would have had to skip my classes but eventually made the trip. After coming back from bhubaneswar, I resumed my classes. But the classes were cut short again-I was diagnosed with jaundice. Stayed in home for some time. But obviously started getting very restless now. So, went for the classes despite being ill. And the underweight being that I, so strikingly come across to people around, I chose not to talk about it and pretended that I am perfectly fine(though the 4 hour sessions were acutely exhausting). Gradually I recovered. There were strong fears that it might relapse. It didnt. And things again got back to "normal". Right!. But there was so much to be done. Time was running out and the pressure mounting. The entrance exams, the school ones(though i didnt give so much attention to them) were all nearing up!. Boom!. The ticking time bomb had just exploded. Too much pressure had to be vented out in some way. It surely did and I ended up screwing up my IIT screening exam and even my school pre-boards. Sob sob!. I still remember the date when the IIT-Jee results were out. It was so damn cold on that day- it hurt. Unfortunately there was still more to come. My board exams were a nightmare(I used to puke up before every exam...funny..right?). Fortunately, it all was to end eventually. And it did. But then that was a different year. Suddenly , everything was gone. It was not 2000 anymore. 2000. Yes-the year of endurance. The year of learning. The year of realization about what I am so much bad and what I am so much good about.