We trended for a toffee. But forgot 22 lakh students.
I was scrolling yesterday.
Melody toffee was everywhere.
Memes, reels, tweets — honestly, I laughed too.
But somewhere between the laughing —
a thought hit me quietly.
22 lakh students gave NEET this year.
Not 22 thousand. 22 lakh.
Kids who woke up at 5am for years.
Who said no to weddings, trips, late nights.
Who told their parents — "bas ek baar ho jaaye."
And the paper leaked.
Yes, re-NEET will happen.
And maybe that's the right step.
But can we re-give them those 2 years?
The confidence they had walking into that exam hall?
The trust they had in the system?
Some things a re-test can fix.
Some things — it just can't.
I'm not here to blame anyone.
I'm just a college student who knows what exam pressure feels like.
And I keep thinking —
We gave a ₹1 toffee more emotional energy than we gave these students.
Not because we're bad people.
Just because the internet moved on.
And we moved with it.
Re-NEET is happening.
That's something.
But those students deserve more than just another exam date.
They deserve to know that people actually saw them.
Did we?
Still figuring things out, one thought at a time.
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