I think the reason why people have kids is to relive their childhood.
I don't think that's such a good idea.
I'm at that stage where I miss my childhood (though I hated a lot of it-I was late every day of the year in 5th standard. The uniforms, tests, sometimes scary teachers, etc) but I miss the organised protective atmosphere, the living day to day.
Actually, even high school was good. The fact that you were let loose at 2:30. The shelteredness of the neatly arranged chairs and benches. Your dependence on the fact that you could pull the plait of your best friend in front of you whenever you were bored. The fact that you could exchange looks with the person behind you when Maths sir began limits and continuity. The looks of 50% self-amusement and 50% frustration that cannot be replicated in any other situation but twelfth standard maths.
Yeah, so well. Imagine me, and then imagine those who are further away from childhood. They start to want to live it all over again-discovering the world all over again. Unlearning the rules and the shapes and colours and assembling them at a much slower pace. Who wouldn't want that!
There must be a solution to this feeling. An alternative rather than adding to the population or ending up with a kid when you're not fully grown yourself.
Childhood is so short that later you wonder if it was all a dream, whether it was real or not. So you spend the rest of your life, trying to reach at it from bits of your memory, like stuffing your hand through a jar, trying to pull out bits of confetti which flash, revealing colours and patterns that feel so familiar.
2 comments:
very nice post...reading it made me relieved my childhood as well. but those were memories i want to come back to when i want comfort and cheers, and not to live it over again. i'd rather move forward as there are more challenging things ahead. and i'm pretty certain i'm equipped to face them from the lessons i had learned from my past.
yea... i miss that as well.. wish we never grew up! :D
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