Do u remember when you last went outside the warmth and comfort of your cozy little apartment to splash in the roadside puddles and dance in the rain?
Do you remember when you last bought candy floss from a street vendor and fed it to your mouth and your nose and your clothes?
Do you remember when you last hid behind a closet door to jump out and scare your dear roommate?
All these little things, which never fail to bring a smile to my face, are long forgotten. The innocence of childhood fades out with time and all we are left with is an abyss which we sink deeper into with each passing day. With each day added to our age, our worries and tensions increase.
Childhood is the most pure and liberating time of any individual's life. How many times have you said to yourself..."I wish I could be four again". As you grow older, you get burdened with responsibilities, grievances and disappointments. You have a family to feed, parents to look after, friends to be there for. Every day is like a race...in which some of us dash for the win and some just struggle to reach the finish line.
Just a glance over your childhood photographs alone can bring a huge smile to your face that lasts throughout the day. Memories of climbing over the fence to retrieve your tennis ball from the strict neighbours house, pouring the milk into the sink coz it tastes so bad, gobbling up your meal just so that you can get to the dessert faster, going to school sleepy eyed and tired from the late video gaming session the previous night, holding your best friends hand in anticipation just as the board exams results are about to be declared, singing in the bus on the way to school picnics...I can just go on and on. memories from childhood are the fondest ones that we carry with us throughout life.
Even today, if you want to get out of your daily morose schedule and show all those 32 teeth of yours to the world, do something you would have done all those years back when you were a kid. Be wild, go crazy and dont hesitate, just let hell run loose.
