I can scan my remote memory way back to the day when I
crawled to my mother to get rice mixed with milk. She used to tell me stories
to make me eat. I still remember the day I sat with my grandmother at the age
of 2yrs in the balcony noticing a crow struggling to get away from a tree. Days
later my grandmother fell ill and was taken to hospital and I ran behind the
wheel chair in the ramp not knowing what was happening to her. I remember the
day when I sat in my father’s arm and looking at grandma’s body and asked “when
will grandma wake up?’’ not knowing she has passed away. The first day I went
to school my mother made me sit in the classroom and waited outside. I was so
afraid and I cried and ran back to her. I remember few of my first friends in
LKG.
I remember many a
thing about me and my brother fighting with each other. Once at the age of 5yrs
I tried to take a honey bottle which slipped and fell down. When noticed by my
father I blamed my brother and he was beaten up. Once we both went late to house
after playing in school and were gifted effectively. After every annual leave I
remember the exam writing pad becoming a cricket bat and ice-cream ball
becoming cricket ball for me and my brother. When I go with my brother walking
to school whenever we notice a new bike or car we used to say “when we become
rich we will buy all those cars and bikes”. Once my father gave two rupees for
us to buy chocolate. I remember asking the shop keeper to give me a five star
chocolate. He told me it cost five rupees. I went back and waited for few
months to get another three rupees from father. I ran to the shop as fast I
could and bought a five star and I and my brother shared it.Every Sunday father
gives thirty rupees to buy chicken. I and my brother were made to wait hours
because the shopkeeper was busy packing bigger parcels and welcoming people
coming in bikes and cars. Whenever I am free I become a driver to a cycle tyre.
The best of all my
childhood memories was when my father and mother take us outside to take dress
for New Year or birthday. We used to walk together for about five kilometres to
textile shop. My father sacrifices his new dress because of us taking costly
dresses. We thought then our father was not interested in buying new dress for
him. Then we go to hotel to have a nice non-veg dinner. Our mother convinces
our father to buy us ice cream for a final finishing touch. Then we walk back
home happily talking about our new dresses when my father silently does come
calculations by making gestures in air. We never knew what he was doing. Well
he was calculating the expenses and the savings he has to make for future
expenses.
Now after so much years has passed after seeing so many
people having a poor childhood period going on to develop dependence to
substances, drugs and other behavioural problems I realize the importance of my
childhood. A famous psychologist has once told “tell me a child’s first two
years I will predict his future”. Such is the importance of our childhood. When
we ask a few patients what they like in childhood they used to say “I don’t
like to remember that”. I learned love and affection from my mother, discipline
from my father, sharing with others from my brother and patience a very
important component in life from the shopkeeper who used to make us wait for
hours for a few grams of chicken….thanks to all of them…
We knew we were not rich we were not wealthy but our parents
never let us suffer and we were very happy. Well I know I can’t get these
childhood times back again but if god gives me a chance to choose something I
will say to him to give me the first ten years of my childhood back to go back
and thank my parents, my brother ,my grandma and all those involved for making
me what I am today. Friends it is never too late than never to thank your parents,
brothers and sisters who have made you what you are today. Let it be today….
“DAYS MAY PASS BUT MY MEMORIES WILL STAY”.
LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE – Dr.Bevinsathya.
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