When We Were Children…!!

When we were children, we lived carefree lives. We did many silly things and made bad mistakes, most of which we don’t clearly remember now. However, some faint memories about them still engage our minds. Some of them we still cherish and feel great about them. In fact, childhood is a carefree age in which all normal, sensible and healthy children do many things voluntarily, involuntarily and excitedly.

There are certain interesting instances of our childhood. For example, we would frolic, play, make fun, cut jokes with one another, sing songs and enjoy ourselves to our best. Being small children, we were innocent naive and docile. We looked cute and smart. However, when we played in grounds, courtyards, dusty and muddy lanes, we disfigured our faces, dirtied our clothes and made silly mischief. Sometimes we would smut faces of our playmates with mud or soot and make fun of them.

When we were children, we didn’t have to worry about our livelihood, maintenance and health. Our parents would take care of our food, clothing, health and safety. Ease and comfort, healthful food, neat and clean living, neat clothes and congenial atmosphere were taken as our due rights and privileges. Being very young, we were free from envy, jealousy and hypocrisy. Deceit, falsehood and cunning were foreign to our innocent nature. Enmity, rivalry and trickery were quite unknown to us. We were all selfless friends. We would play together, chat with one another run together and sit together. We didn’t know about discrimination on the basis of colour, caste, creed and blood. We all were like members of a family. Sometimes we exchanged hot words, entertained personal likes and dislikes and involved in petty quarrels and noisy talks. But all that fuss was over in a short time and we would forget and forgive everything as if nothing had happened. We would make big snowmen, snowballs, small earthen houses and sand houses from wet sand and cut small homes into sand dunes. Such were the pleasures of young age.


When we were children we were apples of our parents’ eyes. They would give us what we asked for. They would even connive at our faults and love us very much. Some of our close relatives loved us and took us as their own children. Our neighbors also loved us dearly and took care of us. We would play with their children at their homes. They would never mind our being most of the day time there. We would share our eatables with one another and sometimes dine together, and on the occasions of our religious festivals we gathered together and had our traditional meals. We used to play several games namely tennis, cricket, tip-cat, marbles, hide and seek, tug of war and wrestling.

At schools we would study hard. We learned many things there. Besides we enjoyed reading lessons, poems, stories, science and literature. Our teachers were so kind to us and we took them like our parents and felt quite at home at schools. Childhood being our carefree age, we enjoyed ourselves very much. Most of us were very poor, yet we all behaved ourselves and loved one another.

We often thought that we would never grow old and that spark of life would never fade. Games, gatherings and fun-making occupied our leisure time. Life was so colorful for us that it looked enjoyable, livable and beautiful all around. We thought that we would stay young, hale and healthy and smart forever. We were nearer to God than we are now. Angles envied our innocence and purity of soul and fairies visited us in dreams. So great were pleasures of early childhood that we felt ourselves in heaven. We really enjoyed ourselves much by playing all games in vogue.

To recapitulate, gone are the days when we were children. We were as free as birds and lived carefree lives. There was nothing to worry about. We were amiable; therefore everybody loved us. We did not know anything about evil, ill-will and dissensions. Life was easy, livable and charming. We were really very happy when we were children.