A feeling of importance started creeping in on us, the green khaki and the white shirts made us a “no-commoner”.

In pain and sadness, we bid our friends and enemies “goodbye”,  our  five-year journey ended. National Youth Service Corps came calling, not everybody picked the call, some had to stay back. It threw us all in different parts of the country. “Now Your Suffering Continues”. Was there any more suffering than the long course registration queues, 7am lectures, missed quizzes, assimilating manuals and textbooks and going blank during exams? We were curious to know. Instincts we had to call on. With packed loads in our hands, smiling faces of our parents and loved ones behind our heels, “goodbye” was the word that escorted us. A new “compulsory” experience beckoned.
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