After seventh class I was promoted to eighth class from upper primary school to high school in my village and to my fortune the same sanskrit teacher who taught my maa in her school days was still teaching and didn’t retire. So I had huge respect for sir and we , everyone used to call him Pati sir according to his surname. He used to teach us Odia sahitya & sanskrit both subjects as there was scarcity of teachers and really teaching that time even now in the school was horrible but only one or two very good teachers were present ; and I credit Pati sir for all good things that ever existed in the school. From office to garden everywhere he was so active and always when there will be full attendance in class he’ll distribute chocolates to us: teddy chocolate with different colours and we’ll compete like who can get more ? And about colours and a lot, so I used to get scholarship and sir will call me to blackboard and announce my name out loud and give me pens and chocolates yes sir gave all these with his own money, a lot of educational things from his experiences & others and I can remember when we were in tenth class sir bought a smart phone and we all will request him to show and sir will show motivational and inspirational things on YouTube in extra time. I was so so naive then , WHEN I was very new to high school, in front of our class there was a tree and it was so beautiful and exuberant I can say I was so fascinated no I was childish, it has nets around it to protect itself from grazing animals but what about me!? I’ll always lean and pick a leaf from it everyday, yes everyday and then white coloured fluid will flow from the broken leaf point and it was noticeable probably, after someday sir noticed or one enemy of mine informed sir: so sit called me Raseswari! । : Have you plucked? So I really can’t lie and nodded: it means yes! So sir said you don’t know!? Its name is venish tree, let it grow a bit then a lot of fluid will come out and everything that will come in touch with the tree will venish immediately , so never ever touch it , you may get vanished and you’re only child of your mother, what will answer to her!? That I didn’t say you so you got venished! Like this sir said like I just got terrified, like it’s a magic tree from the land of ghosts! So I believed and never even tried to taste or to touch the tree again. After some days sir asked in class , ‘no leaves are missing from our venish tree nowadays!?’ so I said out loudly sir noone will, they’ll be vanished and sir said oh! Yes, nobody of you should touch and I could not understand there was a giggling, not so high or low laughing in our class and I thought what are they missing!? I was proud to believe this fact and never in my after three years in high school I touched the tree. And nearly the last day sir said or sabat! Have you tried to touch our venish tree or not!? And I said no sir, I dare not, so sir said don’t say anyone just take a chance and see , will you really vanish!? And I touched the tree trunk fearing and nothing, by this time all those monkeys, my classmates were there and everyone laughed, actually not no they’re not monkey but I was the one who was indeed a thing of mockery but okay I understood that day and sir said , explained any two year old kid will get Raii, you should not trust something unreal blindly and I nodded and thanked sir and sir blessed. And after five years sometimes when I go and see the tree I laugh at my foolishness plus innocence. And now I know the tree is a rubber tree rooted there for fancy purpose so is it a thing that with the fluid from the tree erasers can be made that can erase all my notes!?

so I know now when you first the title, you must have gotten surprised like what’s this ? Is that really a tree name!? Like yes I think I should have thought just like you all when I first heard that this vanish tree will vanish me , literally a total human body, but no such a donkey I was and it’s not the only instance , here for some three years but in my college days also I got to believe a totally unbelievable plus unreal, scientifically and biologically impossible thing for some three days and itsy only my dearest mother who make me laugh at myself and warned me to not believe blindly like this again so okay I hope to meet and gossip with you about this thing some other day.

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