The little things

Back in high school, phones and quite a number of electronic material were prohibited.They always ensured to check our belongings while getting in at school and also did random clean up checks.
But then again, these were the few things that kept us sane at the time regarding it was a single girls' boarding school.
I recall at some point around my birthday, my cousin got me a mini radio.  It was tiny and could easily be smuggled anywhere.
Now those who've experienced boarding school can relate to the prison-like feeling.  You feel detached from the world and really restricted and I just feel like there people like me who would be at their worst without music.  Sometimes it felt like a drug to just release stress and anger and feel free.
Around the same time my brother helped smuggle in a phone and that time Facebook was storming.
These "illegal stuff" brought me sanity, a sense of belonging and feeling free at most.
You were able to get people to do stuff for you and more so you were favoured by students in charge.  It felt great, I can't lie.
We would always charge at midnight to the early mornings in order not get caught, which meant expulsion or suspension from school.
It was 2a.m on a Friday, we were charging and listening to music while laughing as others blow dried their hair. We were having some fun when suddenly someone among us loudly whispered, "MORIA". That being our warden who could be identified by her special Afro wig.
I just remember grabbing my phone and scattering my legs to my room and pretending to be deep in sleep.
She shouted out a list of names [excluding mine] and asked them to bring forward their phones and radios. She also asked them to snitch the rest of us in order to be spared, which couldn't happen because we had a pact of solidarity. So they each got suspensions and their families were told about it but this didn't stop us from trying to let loose and snatch a bit of fun out of the enclosed atmosphere.
These memories teach me to always cling to those tiny things because they are very memorable and keep you in your right mind. There's a lot to life revolving around these tiny little things.