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.
