Childhood

 

                                     Childhood

                The days which will never come back in the life of any individual again is this period, full of fun and enjoying the life as one can at his/her choice. This is the first stage of life which is shaping up the future of any individual as per his/ her surroundings and environment as well as parenting. The period between birth and puberty is generally comes under childhood age between birth to 13 years of an individual or legally when a person gets maturity. Childhood is the time of joy and innocence and away from all the complexities of life.

            So far as I remember that I was lucky enough when I was in that stage I use to play with my siblings in nearby field all the seasons and got reprimanding so many times by my father and mother. Being elder among my siblings I also use to take care of them. But that wonderful life is just etched into my memories when I use to play different locale games with my childhood friends and enjoying lot of funs and frolics during festivals. In our days there were no talent hunt, no mobile, computer, social media likewise today’s. Everything was worked in manual. As these days lot of talent hunt programmed are shown on TVs of small children participating in singing, dancing and other competitions and coming into limelight overnight and become the status of a star. So today’s children have more advantages than us. In these shows even children mostly from humble background are ruling the roost.

            Everybody childhood memories are full with fun even in adverse situation too because at that stage the children not been able to differentiate good or bad, happy, sorrows and miseries of life. They can be found euphoric while bathing in ponds in countryside. But every child is not so lucky as in conflict zone areas children sufferings are insurmountable miseries and the pictures of their sufferings are seen  in TVs and newspapers, where big boys are fighting to end each other and in this way snapping the beautiful and lovely life of childhood of the children. A Hollywood film ‘Columbiana’ is made upon this. A picture of Vietnam war is also tells the story of deep sufferings of children where a Nepam bomb was dropped and a small girl Kim Phuc crying and running naked along with villagers was taken by a Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut.

            In my view every children has the right to enjoy spend their childhood fully either rich or poor. Because it is the period that will never come again in any individual’s life. One of my picture children enjoying into a pipe burst in sultry heat depicts the same.

Text and Photo by- Ashok Karan,

Ashokkaran.blogspot.com

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