Thanks for the memories..

   I was just looking at the calendar, at my birthdate. In about 4 months I'll be 24. Cant believe it, that I have grown so much, how the years have gone by so soon. It just feels like yesterday, when I looked like a tiny monkey, on my mums lap, being fed with cerelac. Drooling on the sides of my tiny mouth, chuckling at mom when she made those funny faces. How tiny I was, everything so gigantic around me. Then the sound of the anklets when I ran around the house, with grandma behind me with plate in her hand with something gooey..something that would make my bones strong she would say, but tasted gross. Sitting on my grandpa's lap in the car, so I could get a better look at the dogs running on the road, putting my head out and letting the air rush through my ears. Climbing the garden walls to pluck those huge pink flowers.

Swinging on the gate of my house..sneaking around my neighbor's house and peeping through the windows..dropping a bag of sand on that fat cat sitting on the washing stone. Those big drops of tears falling from my eyes when being left at kindergarten all alone, behind that huge iron gate closing me in..screaming with the other children at school. Moving on to primary school, carrying that mountain of books, sitting in the last bench in class, getting my ears twisted by the teachers

for not completing assignments, getting rapped on the knuckles for untidy notes, copying during those class tests. Sliding down the big slide..going round and round on the merry go round..racing towards the swing before anyone else grabs it,..those drills and exercises during saturday pt classes. Growing a few inches taller and tying long braids almost reaching the waist..getting it oiled and braided tightly by grandma..it did hurt..but now that pain seems sweet. Those dreadful visits to the dentist, to remove my big teeth. Slurping that cone ice cream, after getting my tooth removed. Moving on to high school..now the world didn't seem that big..I felt like a giant myself

when I saw those kids from kindergarten.

Stepping into my class in that big pink building, all girls dressed in pink skirts, trimmed hair

and some tied in long plaits. 3 years there just went like the blink of an eye. Those long tiring runs around the ground for coming late, those 5 mins break when I would run to the other classes to gossip with my friends there..those 1 hr lunch breaks when we sat in groups shared our tiffin with more gossip coming in. Those times when I sat on the flight of steps with my friends, looking outside the gate, trying to spot her crush among the groups of boys passing by. Passing chits in class, commenting on that language lecturer, dropping things down when that old maths maa'm was dozing off. When my whole class was labelled noisy and stood out in the burning sun on that hot summer's day. Those chilly nights when I studied late for the exams, with that hot mug of coffee, which I thought would give me more strength to keep my eyes open a little bit longer. Man I miss all those..

Crying on seeing all those wet eyes, when maa'm made that moving speech on our farewell day..filling up autograph books with numbers and addresses..making blind promises to keep in touch..then comes the first day of college, stepping into the class packed with a hundred nervous faces..looking at me..those nervous hellos and hi's..the initial introductions..the same trend again follows..new friends..new crushes new fights..yet still the same old history repeats. And years have passed having moved into engineering college..become a first class engineer and here I am sitting in my location with my PC in front..back to the present after a long trip to the past. Memories are really powerful..a time machine that takes us back to those days. So now when think of my birthdate I dont regret getting older..just go back in time in my mind to feel younger..

If you carry your childhood in your heart,you'll never feel older.