{"id":1215,"date":"2017-09-12T01:04:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2017-09-12T01:04:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:34:55","slug":"runaway-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/09\/12\/runaway-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nWakes me up in the middle of the night, the thought of not being baptized as a regular teacher this year too, pains my heart like it did never before. My life is like a firefly without a light. So tired to wait for the next DPC, which merry go round in about two years. This time I promised I wouldn\u2019t weep, one more promise I couldn\u2019t keep. I blame nobody; thought to have flair for teaching. How on earth did I get so jaded being regular seems so faded. Tried to know what the learned knows, tried to teach as the best does. But here I am just drowning in the rain like a madman laughing at the rain with a ticket for a runaway train. Can someone help me remember how to smile and make it somehow seem worthwhile. Everything seems cut and dry, fifty challenges is what remains of me. Somehow I just don\u2019t believe it, yet it seems easier than dealing with the pain. It\u2019s like I should be getting somewhere, somehow neither here nor there.<br \/>\nMy dreams are tied by bloody hands time can\u2019t deny. And in my first memories should have bribed for adhoc \u2013 did they wear a black armband when they did the same. I went numb when I learned to see so I never fell for bribery. We got this great wall of fixing things under the table that we can\u2019t trust freedom when it\u2019s not in our hands, When everybody like me are on a runaway train \u2013 on a one way track.<br \/>\nThe truth is that all of us have our time to be happy and sad, and the conspiracy of silence that so often surrounds sadness today cannot change the fact. Within most of us is a strong desire to hold on to a Govt. job with all the packages of benefit as long as possible. \u2018Most hospitals in this country share atleast two characteristics: they do their best to conceal from the patient the fact that he\/ she might be dying, and when the fateful time draws near they isolate him\/ her from family and friends\u2019. Runaway train never coming back, runaway but it always seems the same.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Abson Tana<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>SSA Teacher<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>GHSS Kimin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, Wakes me up in the middle of the night, the thought of not being baptized as a regular teacher this year too, pains my heart like it did never before. My life is like a firefly without a light. So tired to wait for the next DPC, which merry go round in about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}