Childhood now vs then ...

I born and raised in a small town . I barely saw the city and city life in my childhood . All I had was beautiful nature , big play ground , lots of friends to play . Me and my friends went to school on foot in a big group . We waited in our home for the arrival of our group and on the roads one by one more joined with us . We didn’t need any guardian to reach us to school . We were enough for us .

Our school started with a very interesting class that is cleaning the play ground . Not that way , there was a lots of jackfruit tree and the falling leaves make it look dirty . So we just had to clean the leaves together . It was fun though . I barely can remember what I studied in class 1 or class 2 but can clearly remember the fun we had that time cleaning the playground . Also we had lots of fun in the tiffin period. Lucky that we didn’t have much study pressure as it was a village school .

There was a river beside the school . Our way back to home we made paper boats and floating them to the river . We also had competition that who’s boat could go further . Some of them stuck there , some cross a long way like us today . Some came so far away that can’t even relate the life they had and they have now . I’m one of them . Some still stuck on the same reality like some paper boats. No one is unlucky here .

I shouldn’t get serious . I’m here to recall some good memory and to let people know a amazing childhood story where the word like depression , anxiety ,stress were completely missing .

I rarely sleep in afternoon. Even when my mother tried , I tricked her with fake sleep and ran away to the playground . Sometimes I got beaten for that . We played till the evening . We played hide and seek , Gollachut , Badminton and so on .

In the evening there was no option than study . I loved to study though . I did as long as I could . But then the big time come , the Load shedding . Another time to celebrate together . As in summer , it was tough to stay in home while load shedding . We all came to the open space to have air . We screams rimes , song with wrong lyrics , gossip etc . That was real fun time .

When I recall this memories I get thrilled . How lucky we were , we had a life that time . A real life without any pressure . That beautiful nature , big playground , pressure free school life becomes a myth nowadays . That means we already become a part of myth .

That playgrounds turns into buildings . No place to play for kids expect the streets but that’s not safe definitely . Most of the kid have to captive in house . They become tetchy , loosing appetite for food , being busy in using mobile phone . Lots of children are having mental issues .

The education system is also too much competitive . Too much study load is killing their childhood .

They are being addicted to social media from early age . Being too much connected with lots of stuff . Though this supper connected kids are growing less rebellious , less tolerant , less happy . I may wrong . May they are being advanced in another side what we didn't have .