"I love going back in time and thinking of childhood days. What I loved most was the fact that I never had to worry about things…so called “responsibilities!” and all I had to do was study in time, do my school work, keep my room neat and follow timings set by mom! Life was pleasant if I didn’t neglect all that…
I loved going over to my friend’s places or having them over and playing games, watching videos or sometimes just sitting and talking, reading books, comics! I remember the time I lived in Delhi as a kid. We lived in central Delhi and the colony had around 60 flats (Central Govt. flats) and there were quite a few kids there. We would all hang out together and evenings would be quite noisy with lots of games and cycling too. There was a local market close by where we would go and buy stuff like chocolates or rent videos. There was a stationary shop where they sold comic books too but the owner was a rather grouchy guy…I have a vague memory of his sulking face!
Close by was a library (a make shift one) where we would borrow books from. And on some weekends we would plan parties and take the keys for an empty flat from the colony office. That way we wouldn’t be messing up our own homes too! One of my friends’ had an ice cream maker and we would make lots of ice cream…borrowing ice and milk and sugar from all the flats! Promising everyone some ice cream but eventually finishing it all by ourselves! :P
Ice creams also remind me of an ice cream vendor who would come every evening and we would all wait eagerly for his arrival with many of us offering to push his ice cream cart! The sweet guy would let us buy ice cream on credit too and kept a monthly/weekly account for us! We paid for it when we got our pocket money :-)
I celebrated my 13th birthday at that time (a very special birthday…first year as a teen!) and had my first crush there! Hmmm! My first date and later what could be termed as my first heartbreak there…*sigh*…and a few more memorable firsts! :-)
I remember how all of us knew that eventually we would all be moving away (our parent’s being in Govt. service and transferable jobs) and making solemn promises never to forget our friendship(s) and there was this plan of all of us meeting up in the same place when we were done with college...I think we had even fixed a time and place! Now those memories bring a smile to my face and a longing to know where all the kids I played with are…I did keep in touch for sometime but life moves on right…now I have just pleasant memories to remind me of those days…
Sometimes I envy people who have lived in one place all their lives or at least grown up in one place and never had to move every 4 years to a new place. Then again I do feel that part of the reason why I find it easy to accept change and begin anew is because as a child, I had to that so often. Every couple of years, I had to start a new life all over again! That’s also why I am blessed with so many childhood memories of different places, many friends and many learning experiences…"
Ps: The song playing is “summer of 69” by Bryan Adams
Read my poem “When I think of...” God bless and hope this is a fabulous week for everyone:-)
I loved going over to my friend’s places or having them over and playing games, watching videos or sometimes just sitting and talking, reading books, comics! I remember the time I lived in Delhi as a kid. We lived in central Delhi and the colony had around 60 flats (Central Govt. flats) and there were quite a few kids there. We would all hang out together and evenings would be quite noisy with lots of games and cycling too. There was a local market close by where we would go and buy stuff like chocolates or rent videos. There was a stationary shop where they sold comic books too but the owner was a rather grouchy guy…I have a vague memory of his sulking face!
Close by was a library (a make shift one) where we would borrow books from. And on some weekends we would plan parties and take the keys for an empty flat from the colony office. That way we wouldn’t be messing up our own homes too! One of my friends’ had an ice cream maker and we would make lots of ice cream…borrowing ice and milk and sugar from all the flats! Promising everyone some ice cream but eventually finishing it all by ourselves! :P
Ice creams also remind me of an ice cream vendor who would come every evening and we would all wait eagerly for his arrival with many of us offering to push his ice cream cart! The sweet guy would let us buy ice cream on credit too and kept a monthly/weekly account for us! We paid for it when we got our pocket money :-)
I celebrated my 13th birthday at that time (a very special birthday…first year as a teen!) and had my first crush there! Hmmm! My first date and later what could be termed as my first heartbreak there…*sigh*…and a few more memorable firsts! :-)
I remember how all of us knew that eventually we would all be moving away (our parent’s being in Govt. service and transferable jobs) and making solemn promises never to forget our friendship(s) and there was this plan of all of us meeting up in the same place when we were done with college...I think we had even fixed a time and place! Now those memories bring a smile to my face and a longing to know where all the kids I played with are…I did keep in touch for sometime but life moves on right…now I have just pleasant memories to remind me of those days…
Sometimes I envy people who have lived in one place all their lives or at least grown up in one place and never had to move every 4 years to a new place. Then again I do feel that part of the reason why I find it easy to accept change and begin anew is because as a child, I had to that so often. Every couple of years, I had to start a new life all over again! That’s also why I am blessed with so many childhood memories of different places, many friends and many learning experiences…"
Ps: The song playing is “summer of 69” by Bryan Adams
Read my poem “When I think of...” God bless and hope this is a fabulous week for everyone:-)
Edit: only beta blogs are visible...I get an error msg on non-beta blogs...i think ppl need to switch to beta....!
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