A human being experiences different phases in his life. As we all know they are childhood, youth, maturity and old age. Everyone would agree with me that every phase teaches us many things that were/are important. If asked “Which is the best phase of your life?” What would you say?? For me it would be childhood, when innocence was running way ahead in every aspect of my life. I leave this up to you to decide how you consider these incidents as - innocence or stupidness??
Going back to the thoughts and picking up the tape of childhood from the stack narrating few of my moments when I felt I was innocent to the heights. Scratching my head for so long!!!! Trying to go as back of my times as possible but I could not recollect beyond my 3rd class.
Once, our family was travelling by train to our home state Punjab. “Train” Wow!! I think every kid loved to travel in train. When I never understood how train changed the tracks but busy throwing wrappers to check how far I can see to it once it’s out. I spilled water to see the after effect and never understood that it would splash on the person sitting on the other side of my seat. :)
Once I got up at the midnight because I had a nightmare and wanted to sleep with mom. I was placed on “Upper Berth” It took me 1 hour to get down because I was busy answering my thoughts “If I jumped either I would break my leg or there would be hole in the train and I would go straight on tracks” (considered my jump very powerful). The thoughts did not stop here “What if at the same moment train is crossing over the bridge??” When train use to pass over the bridge I started to pray God “Oh God!! Please let all screws of the Bridge be intact and we cross this bridge safely”. According to me if 1 screw was missing the whole bridge would collapse (I doubted the Construction :)).
Coming to another experience- I loved “Chikki”, when ever we got Chikki. I reserved few for myself to relish it slowly and ensured that I did not consume it all at once. Some times it happened that I could not have it more often because mom scolded me that I would spoil my teeth with more of sweetness. That fraction can anybody think what would have come into my mind?? I thought “Jis din mein paise kamaungi us din ek poora kamra Chikki se bhar dungi aur kisi ko bhi khane nahi dungi” . Now, I think it was a bad idea also I don’t like sweets anymore.
I would also love to narrate one of the fabulous incidents and this time it was not me but my sister. We seemed very logical but we were very innocent to decide as what we thought was “right??”Me, my sister and our good friend were having Grapes. Unfortunately grapes with seeds, the moment my sister and me had the grapes and swallowed the seeds too. Our good friend freaked my sister out saying that “Tune seeds kyun khaye?? Seeds ko nahi khana chahiye varna peit (Stomach) me pedh (plant) hojayega” . Well, this was enough to have a crying orchestra for the whole day.
Parents had the difficult time convincing her that she is fine and there will be no plant growing. We had fun too teasing her that we would cut the plant as it grew out of her mouth :). Guess What??? Today, she is doing her masters in science (Biotechnology).
Sitting back and thinking of those moments makes me smile. I was really very innocent!! Today there are many voices that say "Kids of this generation have lost their innocence".Undoubtedly, I agree to this fact but I fail to justify it in this particular blog.
Hope you enjoyed reading it. Have a great time!!
Going back to the thoughts and picking up the tape of childhood from the stack narrating few of my moments when I felt I was innocent to the heights. Scratching my head for so long!!!! Trying to go as back of my times as possible but I could not recollect beyond my 3rd class.
Once, our family was travelling by train to our home state Punjab. “Train” Wow!! I think every kid loved to travel in train. When I never understood how train changed the tracks but busy throwing wrappers to check how far I can see to it once it’s out. I spilled water to see the after effect and never understood that it would splash on the person sitting on the other side of my seat. :)
Once I got up at the midnight because I had a nightmare and wanted to sleep with mom. I was placed on “Upper Berth” It took me 1 hour to get down because I was busy answering my thoughts “If I jumped either I would break my leg or there would be hole in the train and I would go straight on tracks” (considered my jump very powerful). The thoughts did not stop here “What if at the same moment train is crossing over the bridge??” When train use to pass over the bridge I started to pray God “Oh God!! Please let all screws of the Bridge be intact and we cross this bridge safely”. According to me if 1 screw was missing the whole bridge would collapse (I doubted the Construction :)).
Coming to another experience- I loved “Chikki”, when ever we got Chikki. I reserved few for myself to relish it slowly and ensured that I did not consume it all at once. Some times it happened that I could not have it more often because mom scolded me that I would spoil my teeth with more of sweetness. That fraction can anybody think what would have come into my mind?? I thought “Jis din mein paise kamaungi us din ek poora kamra Chikki se bhar dungi aur kisi ko bhi khane nahi dungi” . Now, I think it was a bad idea also I don’t like sweets anymore.
I would also love to narrate one of the fabulous incidents and this time it was not me but my sister. We seemed very logical but we were very innocent to decide as what we thought was “right??”Me, my sister and our good friend were having Grapes. Unfortunately grapes with seeds, the moment my sister and me had the grapes and swallowed the seeds too. Our good friend freaked my sister out saying that “Tune seeds kyun khaye?? Seeds ko nahi khana chahiye varna peit (Stomach) me pedh (plant) hojayega” . Well, this was enough to have a crying orchestra for the whole day.
Parents had the difficult time convincing her that she is fine and there will be no plant growing. We had fun too teasing her that we would cut the plant as it grew out of her mouth :). Guess What??? Today, she is doing her masters in science (Biotechnology).
Sitting back and thinking of those moments makes me smile. I was really very innocent!! Today there are many voices that say "Kids of this generation have lost their innocence".Undoubtedly, I agree to this fact but I fail to justify it in this particular blog.
Hope you enjoyed reading it. Have a great time!!
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