A Tribute to Childhood

Eenie-Meenie-Minee-Moe

Catch a Tiger by its toe!

Does strike a chord, isn’t it? Who wouldn’t remember the days of the kinder garden clay artisans who claim their first ever made flower or snake or ball or god knows what shape is the best ever possible wonder! Play all time, no study thrust upon, people always around to pamper you and let you go around with your whims and fancies, those days mark the ever enjoyment period-yet sad, because we don’t understand it’s magnitude and go gaga over a silly doll or cry over lollipops and cotton candy. Those days are ever heaven period with innocence at its peak, and no devil thoughts to share the credit.

The first change happens with the transition to the primary school days. The days of taking immense pride in showing off the undersized lunch box filled with that time delicacies – noodles, pizza(home-made of course ), puris, parathas and watch everyone turning green with envy and heads turning from all sides to call out your name to see if they can have a share! A time where “why can’t I be her/him?” thoughts start creeping in as the devil starts entering the mind in angel covered form. But still those are days where we are unmindful of what others think about us, screeching through the school corridors are run dashing through the winds playing, falling, laughing, whew, those are true good times!

Then comes Middle school days, where ‘you are no more a small kid, you are a grown up now’, so expected to have lots of responsibilities. No more does Barbie makes sense at home. In comes home works, a crap called television that holds the most top priority in your life! Come to think of it, you actually enter your teens, where cool is the ‘IN’ thing at this glorious period! Now the devil walks straight out of its cover, into your mind, which was once all sugary, nice sweet angelic! Suddenly parents become bossy, siblings become pesky, and friends become snooping! Well at least one thing happens out of this period, you gain access to the school library full-fledged J !

Now its time for High school and Junior College, or should I say show time! Suddenly snoopy friends become blood-mates in this era. It’s the time, you actually turn off the tv to study, thanks to the public exams. Nevertheless partying has never stopped in terms of cultural events. Come any school cultural, hands shoot up in mid air and names fill in forms at rapid speed, not bothering to check what events our names actually get registered for(This laid the foundation for the future O.D.s in colleges)! Endless hours of tuitions never was a pain when road side pani puris and bakery samosa channas was present on an endless scale. Now we go in to terms of being adults. No more is balloon tapping fun, cartoon network great, pillow fights at home exhilarating , actually spending time at home by itself becomes a lot obsolete. We tune ourselves into the machine life. We ourselves become machines. Then with the end of exams, drowns a whole 15 years of magnanimous school life!!! Then begins college, now that’s a whole more enduring period of the devil-ship ruling the mind at the apex with zeal!

Down with quantizable number of years of life, I wish with true heart that THE CHANGES CHANGE. Not saying growing up isn’t fun, but staying a child is more fun J. Am happy for one teeny-weeny bit of change that has not happened in me – licking chocolate (dairy milk) out of hands and eating an ice cream from a cone, dripping it all through the way!!!!!!!!!

The Toddler Way!

~ by klynisiv on September 5, 2008.