Rocks and Flowers

Along my path to what we call life, I have seen many people fade away from mine. The reasons vary immensely; switching schools, lack of communication, misunderstandings, fights, deaths, you name it. While I am very grateful to the small circle of very close friends I now possess, my mind keeps on wandering to all those souls whom I once knew and was close to. Albeit we drifted apart, I came to realise that I did not bid my farewell as I should have. So this is to you, my dear lost friend. Thank you. Thank you for being part of my life even if it was for a very short period of time. I will be forever grateful to you for having shared with me bits and pieces of your being and for allowing our existences to merge and co-exist. Though our souls no longer connect as they once did, I will never forget the special bond we had. Thank you for you have made me smile and brought joy to my life regardless of the difficulties we may have faced afterwards. It is rare to...

Let me start by giving you some details about my own person to make you understand that my opinion is quite unbiased. I am an ex-DMC and I have been at DMC for 7 years. We are also known as the ‘Fourmis-Rouge’ and we have the reputation of being among the elite students of Mauritius. Recently, one of our alumnae whose name I will not be mentioning since I do not wish to satirise her as she did with the QEC girls, expressed her views on the said school. I neither completely agree with what she said nor am I proud. And through all the comments I have read, I am very disappointed and outraged. Though I have never heard of her nor have I ever read one of her works, through my research I have been able to conclude that she is a well-known author. However, I felt little professionalism on her part when she blatantly bashed online and pinpointed my fellow comrades at QEC. Being an adult who is aware that thousands of people will be reading her article, I feel that it was her ...