Wanna Grow up Once Again - 10 things We Craved for during our Childhood days

We all – once, or twice – must have thought about going back to our childhood days, and relive those moments once again before spiralling down into oblivion forever. Those days when, we didn’t have any constraints or limitations about dreaming anything, when our souls as well as minds were pure without any bad thoughts – like jealousy, selfishness etc., were golden days and are really worth remembering. During those days, we were free to build any castle in air, or in our dream, even defying all the Civil Engineering or Architectural laws or designing rules.

But, in today’s rapidly moving world, when everyone is busy in a cut-throat competition to move ahead of others either by hook or crook, we hardly find even half an hour to think about ourselves, to spend time with our children and families, to relive those golden days of our childhood – when we used to be always ready for any work, at any time, round-the-clock, without losing even a single Joule of energy. I know, if we have to move forward to achieve success, to earn money, to make our presence feel, we need to work hard. But, it’s not necessary that we forget about ourselves, our families, our children in this unending race of success in which we are competing for our own families’ happiness.

So, I did the job for you all. I tried my best touching everything – from every phase, angle, or sphere – of our life during childhood days, and came out with the following list of items, or personalities, or foods, or whatever we craved or starved for, when we were tiny-tots. 

1    1.  Shaktimaan

 

I can bet, nothing or no-one (I mean it) can beat this first Indian Fictional Superhero – we all craved for in our childhood days, from getting the first position. He ruled over all our hearts for nearly a decade, and even now if one gets a chance to relive those days and to watch the episodes again, no one would deny that. All of us must have tried that turning-cum-rotational-cum-translational movement of the body, which was the signature style of Shaktimaan, and slowly made a place in our life too.

2    2. Grandmother’s/Grandfather’s Storytelling

And, there was no substitute of “Dadi-Nani ki Kahaniyan” at night before going to sleep. That Prince-Princess’s story, or King of Jungle – Lion’s story, we had enjoyed all equally and often we used to attach ourselves to those stories in such a way that sometimes it appeared as real life stories. 

3    3.   Play cards or Trump Cards

We might not have remembered each and every word listed on the spelling-list given to us in our schools, but we had memorized every fine details about each player, literally by-heart, scripted on the trump-cards and knew – better than anyone, which one to use - when and how – to beat our friends. There isn’t such fun now, while playing 7-27 or 29 card game with a deck-of-cards.

4    4. Carbon Sheets or papers

    Oh, My, God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This used to be our reaction when we copied something using this – a puzzle-cum-magic in itself – thin blue/black sheet of carbon paper. But, whatever be our reaction, we never bothered about copying beautiful drawings with the help of carbon-papers and showing those drawings to our friends & surprising them with their jaw dropped.

5    5.  Pokémon and Scooby-Doo and Power-puff Girls

How cute was he – Pokémon!!!!!!!! Agree??????? Of course, no one can deny that. He was the cutest of all the cartoon characters – including Scooby-Doo, Mickey Mouse, and Powerpuff Girls – especially because of its attractiveness, prettiness, quaintness, and smallness. Even some of us had the overwhelming urge to squeeze him because of his cuteness, but we found no trail of him to content our desire.

6    6. Fragrant Erasers

While I’m writing this immersing myself in the unending ocean of numerous memories, I can still feel the aroma of those fragrant erasers we used to buy and carry to our schools just to make our friends feel astonished. That distinctive odour or fragrance riding on the back of air, breezing past our faces duplicating the hip-hop dance in a Brownian-motion used to refresh us and make our day. I doubt whether we still have those erasers or not!!!!!!!!! 

7    7. Designer and Stylish Pencils

Ah!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I don’t need to write much about this. The very first of its kind that may come to our minds must be the timeless, beautiful and amazing – “Shakaa Laaka Boom Boom” Pencil. How beautifully designed, it used to be!!!!!!!! We had to make our heart understand about our helplessness to save it from sharpening. Adding to this, there used to be one more Pencil, with which we used to play all the time pulling and pushing, again and again, the nails/lead inside and outside of it – just to make sure we have the desired sharpened nail, or most of the time for fun.

8    8. Flowers for our beloved Teachers

“Phool” to make our teachers “Fool”. Just kidding. Keeping jokes apart, admit it, we all – even once – had done this. Plucking the most beautiful flower – most preferably a Rose, that too red from ours’ or neighbour’s garden, or stealing the same from the bunch of flowers our mother/grandmother used to keep, to offer Gods the same during prayers, was the first thing we generally used to do in the morning, just to impress our teachers, in order to make certain that we get good marks and “Point No. 10”.

9    9. Crayons or Colouring-Kits

Really, it used to be our most memorable experience – to draw our mind out on a blank paper and then, filling the same with different unrealistic and illogical colours just to satisfy our creativity and desire to use those colours. Among them were the fragrant wax-colours that used to be our best companion during those days. 

1    10. “STARS” in our copies

Last, but not the least, those stars – in our copies, gifted when we do a commendable job – were our reasons of ultimate happiness, and mere a dream of it was sufficient enough to compel us to work hard and do our home-work sincerely.

Special mention: These were also in demand during those days - #powdered_mango, #timba_rucha, #Junior_G, #Karma, #plastic_balls, #toys, #marbles, #top, and the list continues…….

If I missed anything, don’t hesitate in pointing that out. Comment below that endless list of items you used to crave for in your childhood days and to which most of the children may attach themselves.