Sunday, March 14, 2010

Idyll's Dream

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter! Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything! 

-- Anonymous

Mum would readily agree that Bill Waterson's inspiration to create Calvin and Hobbes was as a result of me! I was so much of a technical nightmare to folks in my formative days as a child! And imaginably, life has been hard on them as a result of my famed antics that come to be recalled amidst laughter even to this day! Sigh!


Such was childhood! Among the best times, undoubtedly when my tender self with an overtly imaginative mind frolicked in the expansive plains of inquisitiveness with surprising thirst and hunger! I'd readily put the phrase curiosity kills the cat to absolute shame owing to the way my mind functioned, an in many respects, still does! I simply needed to know everything, even if were to be how Mum's necklaces would sink down the water in the well, to how later hapless chicken would too! Perhaps, there was some kind of excessive gene in me that ensured that the carrier stayed silent never! But that remains unexplained medically and parentally until now - something which I surely need to be thankful of!

Leading the gang, or rather a crude bunch of thug children, I'd wander to seize upon the next victim - that could be anything from Aunt's cow being horrendously multi-coloured to lighting up a fire enough to consume a house in its blaze! Childhood was surely unrestricted and largely unsupervised! Being subject to discipline was not a deterrent in any way, but only served to up the ante in vengeful multi folds!

But there absolutely was something magical of those bygone times. They were blissfully sweet, with promises of strong bonds and unbreakable companionships. Even the sunlight seemed kindly mild in its disposition. There weren't deadlines to meet or people to satisfy! There was just us, a bunch of wily hooligans who were almost always given a long rope! And we did tie up the world in it!


Prized possessions ranged from those pocketfuls of Poppins, peppermints, phantom sweet cigarette sticks and so on, often traded for another one's best kept trophy, which was shamelessly called for and made one's own! Might certainly was right! One could endlessly argue over a board of strewn marbles or a pack of footballer cards that were a child's lifeline!

Where have those wonderful days gone to? Why do I never feel the wind bring me those scents now?

Footnotes:

This is the first of a multi-part series inspired and called for by fellow blogger Vimmuuu's tag on the same subject - Childhood and the nostalgia associated with those heavenly times!

32 comments:

  1. Haha....wonderful memories there huh!!!..mine was a largely supervised but pampered childhood I would get what I want but only after a lot of thought put in it...and well my perseverance ;-)

    Shahid

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  2. Shahid

    You bet, those days have been the best - even if I were to use the oft repeated cliche; Those were the days, I'd say that a thousand times over and over again!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  3. LOL
    Lovely post Rakesh
    you make me smile :))))))))
    Nice to see you so little ... LOL

    Yes
    I wish i was little again
    a little girl with long blond curl hair , bleu eyes and going to school learn and learn ......
    bla bla bla !!!!!
    (Its sooooooooo long ago :(
    (Where is my childhood ?!?!

    Great post
    :-)

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  4. Anya

    Thanks so much! Truly appreciate your words!

    We sure do have a wonderful view of our childhood, which I'm sure if very well better than that of our children, don't you think?

    It's superb to be revisiting childhood and to do that often is a state of being in bliss perpetually!

    Glad you found this post interesting!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  5. I see myself in these pictures and the narration indicates my activities on grandpa’s cowshed and creating fire in terrace with woods. Been playing or not, one thing interested a lot then was hanging with friends.

    Its interesting reading u r childhood rakesh! I too wonder being unlike before and what makes difference is innocent.

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  6. Jeevan

    Many thanks for your comments!

    Childhood, has truly been the best times ever, as you will readily agree with me - the cheer and good times associated with that period will never come to be!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  7. I knew it ! I knew that only you could do justice to this tag ! Thats how magical your words are ! :D

    Btw, where did you get that dress in the first picture ? Did you rear a broiler chicken for that ?? :D :D :D :D

    Eagerly waiting for the rest of this series ! :D

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  8. Very sweet memories. The childhood will usually carefree until get caught doing the wrong things.

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  9. Vimmuuuu

    Thanks so much dude! Your tag touched a very important part of our lives that being childhood! And I needed just the opportunity to be presented, which I got thru U!

    Those wonderful times :)


    And lol on ur comment about the sweater! Coincidentally, I felt it too! And I still feel its all of chicken feathers or rabbit wool :)

    Actually, Mum knitted it - And she must have done it plucking out the plumes of all those chicken I casted down the well :)

    Cheers mate!

    Rakesh

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  10. Rajesh

    Indeed - childhood is one helluva time spent growing up! Nothing parallels it!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  11. You actually played with fire!?! We stopped at eating our self made flower-pickles and then all three of us being sick :)

    And how did you reach the middle of the fountain in that park - that's a delighted and very mischievous looking child!

    Poppins were a great favorite of ours too :)

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  12. IHM

    My childhood was a disaster management program for my folks ;)

    Thanks for your comments!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  13. Sleeping Beauty

    Thanks very much! Glad this post took you on a journey!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  14. childhood is a heaven that can be revisited at will!

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  15. Hi Rakesh! Nostalgia already over there? What would I say... ;)

    Blogtrotter 2 has moved to the Cayman Islands. Enjoy and have a great weekend!!

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  16. More than anything, ur language and the usage of words make me read you again n again

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  17. Lovely post. Those carefree days with no responsibilities and nothing to worry you...being taken care of by one and all...nostalgic and very well written....the photographs makes it clear that you must have been quite naughty...good one.

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  18. Nostalgic yes, for sure, but especially wonderfully written!

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  19. I guess every age has its own charms and difficulties. When I attended the NCC camp in my 9th Standard, I thought that was the most difficult thing one would have to do in his whole life!! :) :) :)

    Destination Infinity

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  20. :-) NIce recollection...By the way, how did you get there, in the first picture? :-)

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  21. Magiceye

    Indeed Sir, childhood is that special place which is akin to heaven!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  22. Gil

    A lot of it I must say! Ongoing, pretty much!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  23. Peter

    Thanks so much! Glad you found it interesting!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  24. Vee

    Thanks so much pal! Your encouragement makes me feel sky high!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  25. Saji

    Thanks very much! I sure was one helluva naughty brat when I was a kid and that kid in me stays forever ;)

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  26. Di

    Oh yes, every age has its ways of passing - good and bad! Childhood had its share too!

    Good to see you back! Hope alls well @ ur end!

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  27. Ajeya

    Thanks so much!

    I guess I must have jumped in there and folks may have thought, "lets catch the bugger doing his antics."

    :)

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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  28. Rakesh - I wouldn't agree with your take on Calvin. He is 100 times more docile than you - now that's better !!

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  29. Srini

    You bush tailed weasel! Wait till I catch up with U! U r dead meat pal! ;)

    Cheers

    Rakesh

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