They'll always be good ones, good ones forever.
We often look back at our childhood, try to look at somebody else' childhood and we see a happy kid jumping around the backyard, jollying about a playground, rolling on a bed, giggling mindlessly, a perpetually happy kid with only happy memories to take forth in life.
We look at ourselves in a time when we would cry for things, destroy ourselves for a chocolate we could not get, things which are merely trifles now. My mother keeps telling me how others asked her, "Your son is always laughing and merry, why are you so strict, ma'am?" Its something I like to know, that I was a perpetually happy kid. But its the same case with every kid.
Childhood was when no one understood the gravity of the situation, no one understood the gravity of grief. We were all planets who got pulled towards a bright, happy star defying the sorrowful pull of a black hole. We were things defying the laws of gravity. Sadness was not getting that toy you wanted, not getting potatoes for lunch, but tomatoes, doing homework beyond the stipulated study time, not getting ice cream, which as we grow up, we recognise them to be trifles. And thus, childhood passes like a happy memory. We realise that everything that made us sad back then were merely trifles and things that make us sad today were things with gravities we never understood. Only happiness remains. Maybe, even today, if we choose to ignore the gravity of the situation, everyday would be a day of Childhood. These Childhood-filtered good memories, they are what will counter today's bad memories.
Childhood memories will always be a good ones, good ones forever.
We often look back at our childhood, try to look at somebody else' childhood and we see a happy kid jumping around the backyard, jollying about a playground, rolling on a bed, giggling mindlessly, a perpetually happy kid with only happy memories to take forth in life.
We look at ourselves in a time when we would cry for things, destroy ourselves for a chocolate we could not get, things which are merely trifles now. My mother keeps telling me how others asked her, "Your son is always laughing and merry, why are you so strict, ma'am?" Its something I like to know, that I was a perpetually happy kid. But its the same case with every kid.
Childhood was when no one understood the gravity of the situation, no one understood the gravity of grief. We were all planets who got pulled towards a bright, happy star defying the sorrowful pull of a black hole. We were things defying the laws of gravity. Sadness was not getting that toy you wanted, not getting potatoes for lunch, but tomatoes, doing homework beyond the stipulated study time, not getting ice cream, which as we grow up, we recognise them to be trifles. And thus, childhood passes like a happy memory. We realise that everything that made us sad back then were merely trifles and things that make us sad today were things with gravities we never understood. Only happiness remains. Maybe, even today, if we choose to ignore the gravity of the situation, everyday would be a day of Childhood. These Childhood-filtered good memories, they are what will counter today's bad memories.
Childhood memories will always be a good ones, good ones forever.
As a kid, I never wanted to grow up.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought, 'hmm. If I stay 10 years old forever, then I won't be able to drive a car'. So I wished upon a star and hoped that I would turn 18 and then stop ageing.
I'm 18 this year. I want nothing more to go back to being a little kid. But if that doesn't work, I want the next few years to fly by.