Growing up, I realised that childhood is one of the best phases of our lives. It's at this stage you are the most carefree. You think of almost nothing, just your dolls and toys. You don't need to study that hard. All you do is play cry, eat, play some more, hurt yourself and sleep even without bathing. But fortunately or unfortunately, your whole life is not made of just your childhood. You have to go through other phases, like
adolescence and adulthood.
Thankfully, we were created with a brain which gives is the ability to form and keep memories among which there are ones formed during childhood. I had several memories during my childhood, but the ones I cherish the most and always wish I could relieve were those I shared with my brothers. I have 4 brothers and a sister and I grew up with them both. My sister was the eldest so obviously she was the mature and independent one, and she was also the quiet one.
I on the other hand was more loud, playful and noisy one because of
this, I moved more to the guys than my sister because the guys like me were energetic and noisy.
One of the things I remember doing was slaying wrestling with my brothers. We used to stealthily watch wrestling because our
parents never allowed it. "It is too violent and dangerous for kids to watch", they would say. But we were just kids. We could care less. It was fun and interesting to watch, at least at that time and that was all that mattered. So after we watched it, we would go ahead and practice it. I used to practice it with three of my brothers. Since we were four people in all, we used to do tag team matches, two against two. Those times were so fun. We also used to play soccer a lot and also improvised table tennis with the equipment we had available.
It was from childhood, playing soccer with my brothers that I began to love soccer and how my soccer journey began.
Other times apart from playing sports, we used to gather either on the balcony or in the living room just to tell jokes. We all gather and tell jokes in turns, as we try to find the one with the best jokes; one who can make everyone laugh. We keep going until we feel sleepy and are ready for bed.
Childhood were the times we were extremely innocent wecared less about bathing together. We would all jump in the shower
and waste the water, in the name of bathing, then go back to the guys room, and play some more before thinking about putting on some real clothes.
Amidst all these good memories were some not so pleasant moments too; the fights. We used to form groups, fight, make up, reform groups, fight some more and make up again.
Even though the fights weren't the best, all these make up my childhood and cherish every single one of them.
We are grown now and those childhood moments are gone We are all so busy that we can't even be together at one place anymore. Our schedules are so conflicting and because of maturity, there are some memories we can't relive anymore.
Regardless, I am so grateful I got the opportunity to make these memories while they were available.