The Extra Terrestrials...

They are the different ones. They are looked up by some, sweared on by some. They are "The Ones" for the teachers and also "The Ones" for the students (Hope you get my expression in both "The Ones" :) ). They are loved by the teachers, hated by the students(not necessarily). Their existence, threatens the existence, or rather, the significance of others, which is one of the reasons why they are hated by a lot! They are the Rajnikants of The Student World (was reminded of Rajni because of all the SMSes. On a personal note, I love those jokes :D). Come sun, snow, rain, tsunami, fever, guests at home, vommiting etcetera into Infinity (Infinity- the amount of excuses the normal students know when they have not done their home work (which is almost always) ). They will never ever miss a lecture. And they will come the next day to class, even though there has been an earthquake in the city and the classes building has been destroyed. They will never complain even if the professor is taking an hour extra (Not that they enjoy, but they have a reputation to build na? :P). Now I can go on giving you the characteristics of The Extra Terrestrials, (as I fondly like to call them (no offence guys, its a compliment)) but I would rather not!

So why do I call them The Extra Terrestrials? The answer is simple. Read the first paragraph again. So the definition of an Extra Terrestrial is: A creature who is different from you. Now, scholars do not behave like us, they don't have normal lives and are very different from us. So, the name: The Extra Terrestrials.

As a student in school or college you have many different types of persons. Some maybe Jocks(sports guys), some maybe nerds (not necessarily scholars, but can be easily bullied), the geeks (the super smart guys, who can also be classified under nerds, depending on their behaviour patterns) and of course the Bullies(the name is enough a definition). In India, there aren't many bullies as such, but there are Jocks, Nerds, Geeks and a combination of Nerds and Geeks (Geeky Nerds, if I may say so). Scholars can come under Geeks or Nerds also.

Now as a student through the years I have been both a scholar and a norma student. My former years in school (we can say until the Seventh Standard) I was a scholar. A top three person almost always. However, after Eight I started trending towards the above average people section. Now I don't know whether it was my group or what which caused me to go to the above average section. My group was not of bad people academically or socially, but they were not scholars. I guess, to be a scholar you need to be in scholar environment and with scholar friends which will also make you a scholar eventually. However, the problem was that Scholars were and are never, friend material. Scholars (generally) are back-stabbers, liers and a bunch of people who will try to put you down, demoralize you, or just lie to you so that you study less with confidence of support froma friend, and he studies more. All these qualities are certainly not friend material. A friend will never lie to you, and will certainly want you to get atleast as much as you, if not more.

Another quality(annoying) that makes scholars hard to live with and to be friends with is that they will never help you. I did not experience all this in school but in classes, where I am surrounded by scholars, I experience it from time to time. They will not tell you how to do a sum, even if the know how to do it. When you ask them if they did home work, they'll say no, but will be the first ones to ask the sums which they could not do. To give them a fair judgement, I can understand the fact that they don't solve our doubts. Sometimes, the lecture is going on and they can't explain. Fair enough. But why to lie?

Another fact, why you can't be friends with a scholar is that they are just not normal(and by normal I mean, like me atleast upto some extent). They will not notice a beautiful girl, they'll not talk about a girl who is good looking(yeah a lot of "normal" stuff has to do with girls :P) they, in many cases, don't have passion for something other than studies. They don't watch any sport and the list goes on. And because of these facts it becomes hard to strike up a conversation with them.

Its not because of nothing that me and millions of others don't like scholars. Its because of this lying and back-stabbing that we don't like them not because they're not interesting or something.

You may say that I've been a scholar too, and if I was like this when I was a scholar. Frankly speaking I don't quite remember. However, I don't think I would have been, or anybody would have been, because we were small.

Of course, like we think of them as "Different", they think of us as "Different". Only their points are different. Like we make jokes of theirs (I do not want to splurge them out ;D ), they would also be making jokes about us. They must also be detetesting us! However, I know my reasons of detesting them and I guess they're justified. Not having heard theirs, I cannot make a comment.

And of course, all this is a genralization. There are many people who are scholars, not normal but helpful too, in my classes too! However, many of these scholars share all these qualities and are more or less the same.

The fact that they are demoralizing and not helpful, is the prime reason why I dislike them. But of course there ARE scholars who are helpful and not demoralizing.

P.S- All my scholar friends who read this (not many, coz they are scholars!) I have nothing against you'll. These are just the common sentiments.