{"id":152935,"date":"2025-05-14T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=152935"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:13:35","slug":"classmates-and-the-trickery-of-life-food-for-thought-by-charles-schokman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/classmates-and-the-trickery-of-life-food-for-thought-by-charles-schokman\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASSMATES AND THE TRICKERY OF LIFE &#8211; FOOD FOR THOUGHT &#8211; By Charles Schokman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">CLASSMATES AND THE TRICKERY OF LIFE &#8211; FOOD FOR THOUGHT &#8211; By Charles Schokman<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ae\/School-Friends-Memories-Album-Activity\/dp\/B08L8FXVQ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-152921 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/617SCcrjQXL._SY385_.jpg\" alt=\"SRI LANKA WOMEN\u2019S CRICKET TEAM NEEDS A REWAMP - By Sunil Thenabadu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Image Source :\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ae\/School-Friends-Memories-Album-Activity\/dp\/B08L8FXVQ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amazon<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enkiquotes.com\/quotes-on-school-friends.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-152921 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i.enkiquotes.com\/K954x0aGIK_2tRW1PMLbGkzYZp0=\/800x0\/\/images\/2016\/10\/7423d2b26498276668a2c45352e922f8.jpg\" alt=\"SRI LANKA WOMEN\u2019S CRICKET TEAM NEEDS A REWAMP - By Sunil Thenabadu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Image Source :\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.enkiquotes.com\/quotes-on-school-friends.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enkiquotes<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Most Sri Lankans in Australia honour their Alma Mater by being a member of their &#8220;Old \u00a0School&#8217;s Association\u201d. This enables them to continue their loyalty to their past school and maintain their friendship with his or her contemporaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Someone once stated that \u201cIt is in school that we choose our friends, picking the precious stones from among the pebbles\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I trust the article below will enrich your life to realise that you still have a heart that can reach out and remember your friends.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>*CLASSMATES AND THE TRICKERY OF LIFE*<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There is something both amusing and tragic about classmates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">When we are young, sitting side by side in stiff wooden desks, everything feels equal. We wear the same uniforms, complain about the same teachers, and dream the same big dreams. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We believe, with the foolish confidence of youth, that life will reward us fairly. That the one who topped the class will top in life, that the one who struggled will always struggle, that effort will always equal success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">But life is not a classroom. Life is a trickster, a mischievous storyteller who loves plot twists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Then one day, years later, we meet again at ordinations, weddings, funerals, airports, or by accident at a supermarket. And suddenly, we see what nobody warned us about. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The boy who never did his assignments now owns a mansion. The one who won all the academic prizes is still searching for relevance. The one who was always quiet now commands boardrooms, while the one who once led every debate now sits in silence, waiting for an opportunity that refuses to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And we ask ourselves: how did this happen?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Nobody told us that life does not follow the rules of the classroom. That hard work is important, but so is luck. That intelligence is valuable, but connections sometimes matter more. That some rise not because they are the best, but because they were in the right place at the right time. That life does not grade us like exam scripts, it rolls the dice and sometimes, the results are baffling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There is a good side to all of these: no matter how far life scatters us, when classmates meet again, the years disappear. Titles do not matter. Bank accounts do not speak. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We laugh over memories of forgotten nicknames, of teachers we swore we would never forget but now struggle to remember. For a brief moment, we return to a time when we were just young with dreams, before life stepped in with its unexpected script.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And just maybe, that is the real lesson: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">*success in life is not just about who has more, but about who still has a heart that can reach and remember his friends.*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Author Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152936 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/school-friends.png\" alt=\"school friends\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">HAPPY MEMORIES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly\u00a0to\u00a0your\u00a0inbox!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLASSMATES AND THE TRICKERY OF LIFE &#8211; FOOD FOR THOUGHT &#8211; By Charles Schokman Image Source :\u00a0amazon Image Source :\u00a0enkiquotes Most Sri Lankans in Australia honour their Alma Mater by being a member of their &#8220;Old \u00a0School&#8217;s Association\u201d. 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