It’s just amazing how some of your best memories are from your childhood! And I so wish someone returned those days back to me. All my summers in Itarsi, a dehat (a type of village) in Madhya Pradesh during my days, how liberating were they!
Mangoes, board games, food, berries, watermelons, melons, cricket, sleep and repeat it in any order everyday. That’s how we passed our days then. Some cartoons too along with video games but mostly outdoor sports! Running around the houses, madly in search of the balls, players, riding bicycles, mopeds, jumping! In those days, we didn’t have homework for summer. No pressure like these days. I genuinely feel, the childhood that we lived will never be lived again. Interestingly though, I don’t remember a single night!
Friends and brother were all I searched for in my summer days. My mother took care of the heat. Mango juices, shakes, Aam Panna (I don’t know what else to call it, my Indian readers will understand it. For everyone else kindly Google it. It’s a raw mango cooler) kept me away from any stroke. The trees, the cold floors and the coolers doing their bit too!
And food and food! I just can’t forget the smell of the rotis with ghee and sugar sprinkled on them. I can’t forget the roti’s torn to pieces and milk and sugar. My mother has had me so fallen for her food, I’m still to wake from my dream. I’m since hung over!
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I think when we were kids we enjoyed everything our minds were free from worries we wanted very little and if we got it we were very happy this can be the reason why we remember our childhood stories.
It was a fun time.
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So true Ranu! 😀
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I enjoyed the small glimpse into your youth.
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Thanks so much frncnseal585! 😀
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I enjoyed reading this. It is amazing how much different summers are nowadays for kids, with having less freedom due to athletic activities, academic enrichment to forestall the “brain drain,” etc. And of course, there is a lot more indoor/electronic stimulation available now…
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Yes, and I believe kids don’t get enough free time these days like we did to simply run around the block and don’t care about passing their days doing nothing! 🙂
Thank you for taking time out to read this! 😀
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You don’t remember any nights because you stayed on the move during the days so at nights you just slept. We had a similar upbringing. Our bedtime was 8pm. LoL.
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lol so was ours I guess! 😀
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interesting write, in dehat kids sleep early that could be the reason you don’t remember any night. Btw, lol @ a raw mango cooler 😀
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Yeah, that may just be the case! And yes I had a good laugh writing about it too! 😀
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Now that sounds like fun!
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Yes it totally was! 😀
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Oh I love these colors! I kind of drink them with my eyes and feel like I’m there
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Thank You so much for your appreciation Ninna! 😀
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Growing up in rural Texas, most of my summers were spent hauling hay with a little golf and baseball thrown it. Pretty much a happy time, just too bloody hot.
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Well sports and activities designed by my mom made our summers too! Quite a lot in common given, the heat must have been 50 degrees then! And trust me, I’ve never spent my summers and I can bet you haven’t too, the way you did then! 😀
They are the rawest experience we can ever imagine… things that made us tough, taught us amazing things, gave us injuries that taught us again! 😀
Thanks a ton for reading and commenting! 😀
Just a question though… when I read you, will it be fine to add that southern accent? It’s way too much fun then! 😀
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“Texas Accent” and yes, be my guest.
Thanks for replying
😉
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Oh I love fun loving people! And thanks a ton for liking a post of mine… I grew up watching cartoons depicting the Texan accent and I find it so much fun! Welcome to my humble abode! 😀
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Loved this entry! I grew up in Ujjain, MP, not too far from Itarsi and I have fond recollections too, I remember writing about Monsoon and mangoes, i should repost it. Btw, thanks for the follow 🙂
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Link please… Thank you so much for your appreciation! 😀
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It was on an old blog, so I need to find it and re post/rewrite; here is another of monsoon in India – a personal essay that managed to appear in Freshly Pressed: http://thepigmentsoflife.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/pieces-of-home/
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