Childhood

RECOLLECTION OF

               MY CHILDHOOD

Childhood-the happiest period of one’s life! It is, however, a period of life that passes soon and once gone it never comes back!

          When I try to recollect the days of childhood, a host of memories rises up before me. I smile at things I have said and done because they appear so silly to me now. Here is one occasion. It was a wedding in our family. My aunt was getting married and was therefore leaving us. She was to go out of our town too as I had heard the olders talking.  Now, I was very fond of aunty and would not let her go. As I was explained she must go because she was “getting married.” I insisted that in that case I too would get married then and there! I laugh at myself now when I think of it, but at that time I was too young to understand what “getting married” means.

          Here comes up another picture. It is some festival and there is a big Annual Fair. I go with my elder brother to see the Fair. Naturally there is a great rush of people and I get lost. In my anxiety to watch some big toy in some booth, I let go my brother’s finger and he disappears in the crowd. I immediately set up a howl and looked about bewildered at the faces of people around me. Then comes a policeman. Now who ever wanted him? Of all people, he was the last man I had wanted to see, because I was always told that if I cried the “Policeman” would come and take me away! Here I was crying and the “POLICEWALA’” had popped up, from God knows where. Any way, he was nice to me and asked me if I had got lost. Now, what a silly question! It wasn’t I that was lost, it was my brother that was lost, I told him.

          These are some of the recollections that rush up to my mind when I think of my childhood. How differently I feel and think about these same incidents now, but I feel that it was an extremely happy period of life it is gone for ever and left only its sweet recollections.

CAN YOU REMEMBER YOUR's OWN CHILDHOOD?