This is my introductory blog...to share with you a short sketch of my childhood.
Ihail from a very simple family with deeprooted traditional values. For me it was the usual....in my child hood...i grew up with the sound of rabindranath tagore's compositions...brilliant writings of satyajit ray(famed as a one of th greatest film directors ever), and other great writers of bengal, with the foriegn element being provided by Enid Blyton, Herge(Tintin),Hans anderson, wonderful russian authours like nikolas ostrovosky,pavel korchagin,etc(ofcourse they were translated to english), and translated chinese and japanese folklores.All the credit for this exposure to my reading habit goes to my Father specially.
It was quite an eventful time with great friends, delightful memories and the fantacies that a child's brain can think of. Mischief and creativity were the order of the day.
Since i grew up in a closely knit family with no siblings... i enjoyed a very intense bond with my parents...my mother was always my fairy...always there to fulfill my wishes... and i was.. out and out an outdoor person....swimming...badminton..cricket....running...wonderful days.....
Every winter, in the afternoon, whenever i get a time to take a walk and ponder back...i keep on flying into those days....and realize that it is like curse to grow up....we gain money...we make names...we are known as the matured citizen.....we gain all the material wealth that we can earn...we are free..no one to scold us.....AND IN TURN....we loose...our simplicity...our passion for the things that we believe..i Lost my mother.....my father is just a shadow of the past.....my childhood friends....all grown up...our thought limited by the boundaries of rationality......our ability to trust has faded away........
Just too many things that I lost to be a grown up....
Ihail from a very simple family with deeprooted traditional values. For me it was the usual....in my child hood...i grew up with the sound of rabindranath tagore's compositions...brilliant writings of satyajit ray(famed as a one of th greatest film directors ever), and other great writers of bengal, with the foriegn element being provided by Enid Blyton, Herge(Tintin),Hans anderson, wonderful russian authours like nikolas ostrovosky,pavel korchagin,etc(ofcourse they were translated to english), and translated chinese and japanese folklores.All the credit for this exposure to my reading habit goes to my Father specially.
It was quite an eventful time with great friends, delightful memories and the fantacies that a child's brain can think of. Mischief and creativity were the order of the day.
Since i grew up in a closely knit family with no siblings... i enjoyed a very intense bond with my parents...my mother was always my fairy...always there to fulfill my wishes... and i was.. out and out an outdoor person....swimming...badminton..cricket....running...wonderful days.....
Every winter, in the afternoon, whenever i get a time to take a walk and ponder back...i keep on flying into those days....and realize that it is like curse to grow up....we gain money...we make names...we are known as the matured citizen.....we gain all the material wealth that we can earn...we are free..no one to scold us.....AND IN TURN....we loose...our simplicity...our passion for the things that we believe..i Lost my mother.....my father is just a shadow of the past.....my childhood friends....all grown up...our thought limited by the boundaries of rationality......our ability to trust has faded away........
Just too many things that I lost to be a grown up....
The golden period of life!!!!!!which we human being loose as we grow up gradually,the world which during our childhood gives us so many wonderfull memories to tressure,the same world becomes very materialistic as soon as we grow up,responsibility shatters our chilhood fantasy,yes i do agree with Avik we loose our simplicity.At times the materialistic demanding world makes us a hard core professional-"FROM A HUMAN,WE TURN TO MACHINE".
ReplyDeleteAll of us miss those golden days because we never had to share responsibilities, never had to care about anyone but ourselves and truly we all were simple, innocent in those days but LIFE has to complete a full circle. If we keep missing the joys of childhood, we can never enjoy the adventures of adulthood. The first love, the first promotion, the first baby......Look forward to life because it has loads to give..."Do or die" is an old saying..remember "Do it before you die"
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ReplyDeleteSee, it's natures way that we have to grow! But we have to grow in order to achieve some. It says you gain some and you loose some.I remember when I am a child and I have demanded something hard a hard beating comes down on me and I would die to be grown up so that I can live at my own will.But like Avik has said we loose our innocence to materialism it's true to the core. But again confusion. During childhood you are asking for material wealth and now you trying to get back your innocence. So hurting no one's feelings I would just like to oversee this bullshit by asking you guys, why not find childhood glories from within (there is always a child in everyone of every age)blend them with whatever we have presently and try not to be sad but just be happy . Otherwise we would have drawn a full circle of our life .I just want to share a thing I have learned from my life "Always SMILE because it's a CURVE that can set a lot of things STRAIGHT". So guys just recall your childhood and nurture your innocence so that materialism don't get to reign over your natural sentiments. Guys please forgive me if I have sounded like a gyan guru.... anyways cheers to life
ReplyDeleteLife is a world of wonders ..........
ReplyDeleteLife is full of challenges,Which we do face as we leave our childhood behind and approach towards adulthood,Life is sometimes hard where we get to tolerate both happiness and sorrow,as we grow, life is a journey to be made to gain maturity,which we gain through the changing phases of life,families and buildings are what in which we make investments in life,as we grow older.Life is full of miracles.
Life you should take things as they come.
change is inevitable, but I must say that nurturing simplicity is completely in our hands. Ostrovsky, Tagore don't have to vanish from our lives. As children we were on the receiving end and our parents introduced us to these wonders of life. Now we can do otherwise. We can introduce our fathers to Neruda or Kundera may be, go hike a bit, play a round of badminton. :)
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Yes its very true Sayantani...we can nurture our innocence our simplicity...but then again...its something that is quite a battle...its great...if it is won...but what i meant in my blog is that...all those things came to us quite naturally...and as far as tagore and Ostrovosky comes...definitely we will always cherish them....but the way we njoyed in our childhood will never come back...coz.. with time...we learn a lot...we imbibe a lot...and hence we are bound by the realms of reality... no matter how much u try...slowly and slowly ur perspectives change....
ReplyDeleteThanks to all who have shared their views about childhood. I would like add that we were very sensitive and emotional. I meant while we were kids, even a sily thing made us happy and thrilled. We used get excited watching the movies, action sequences and TV serials (remember the program by DD1 during the summer vacation 'Chuti Chuti'). Still, I can remember how much happy I was; when my father bought me a cycle.
ReplyDeletewhat I meant, the feelings of childhood are really special. And now, nothing excites that much.
it is so true ...thru all my childhood days i always prayed 2 God as 2 wen ill grow up n become a mature adult, responsible adult,independent....funny how time fly n what is even funny is d fact dat now dat am on d threshold of adulthood ,freedom ...i am dreading every moment of it...as of now in d present scenario dwelling in d sometimes picturesque yesteryears n d sometimes hazy oblivion ....is d most blissful of all...
ReplyDeleteI am sorry am being an intruder....totally uninvited but just cudn't resist posting my comment.Its said that the more we grow, the more we tend to move away from God. We stop cherishing the simple pleasures of life. But each phase of life brings joy to us in different forms...we are talking about the joys of childhood that we have lost but what about the moments in adulthood that we have gained. These moments stay with us forever like falling in love...the first day in college or the first puff wid friends..what we are now and what we feel now will change again...so lets enjoy the moment we live in coz its one life and we should live it to the fullest...(PS. I hope zyada gyan nahi ho gaya)
ReplyDeleteHey sugandh, thanx a lot for sharing your veiws and gyan (if u want to say so). I definitely agree with whatever things that you have said,and what actually i wanted to describe was this change in concept of fun, u know something...there were few things i remember in my childhood that i miss..
ReplyDeletethere were days when monsters existed and i could defeat them with a pillow or a wonder sword which never existed.Now i i have grown uo..i hear about mosters and i say..its all bull...
U know when i was in my 11 years ..i wonedred if i can fly like superman(even tried few times)..i knew exactly how it might feel to be soaring high in the clouds...with the rainbow showing my way..to neverland...and the simple belif that everything was possible..
to try and understand every single sound a dog , a cat, a bird, even a tortoise uttered...since i believed that they were talking to me and every sound means someting..and it was always a huge amount of fun...to try and dicover exactly what they meant....
Now as you say there is defintely a lot of fun in everything...but its not that simple anymore...or imaginative as before...
u know...when i take five mintes and close my eyesi think back and imgaine that iam flying...but i cannot sense the freedom or the clouds...i have grown..up..cant fight with monsters from fairy tales anymore...can i ??....
i have defintely grown up...