Submitted to: Contest #102

MY SWEET CHILDHOOD

Written in response to: "Frame your story as an adult recalling the events of their childhood."

Adventure Friendship Happy

Childhood, the best part of my life.

I am so happy to have a great childhood with my siblings , friends , family , relatives, teachers, neighbors.

A book will not be enough to express my feelings and adventures I had in my childhood.

But now I am going to share some of my best childhood experiences with you.

No.1 The Train ticket🎫

It was in my collage days . My friends and I should go to other village for our studies and we used to live together in one room. Our parents would give us money every month sufficient for the rent of the room we lived in and some more extra money for us to spend them on our needs or something else.

From that extra money we even had to buy the train tickets . So to save the money of the tickets we would not buy them but go and sit in the train. When we see that the ticket inspector is coming to our block of train, we would go to other block. The ticket inspector would not ask us because he did not see us . It was very fun but even little frightening that we may get caught.

No.2 The Movie run

This was great fun, you may have thought what is movie run , it was a run of my little brother and I had after my elder brother to watch movie.

I have two brothers one is elder than me and the other younger, my parents would leave my younger brother with me while they go to work and my older brother would go to tuition after the school.

But on Sundays my elder brother would not have tuition and he would go to neighbors house with his friends to watch movie because at that time in our village only a couple of villagers have television. My elder brother would not take me because if I come my little brother would also come come along with us but after some time before the movie is totally completed he would ask us to go with him and take him home because you know small children get bored faster than anyone else except Peter pan( a naughty Disney character who never grows up). So my elder brother would try sneak out of the house without telling us because if he tell us we would also go with him.

It happened so one day that my elder brother sneaked out of the house without telling us , after some time I searched for him by noticing his absence and I understood that he sneaked out. Then I took my little brother and went in search of my elder brother , one house to another of which house I guessed he would be because as I said in those days only a couple of villagers have televisions. So at last I found him and went to him and sat beside him with my little brother. He would say " ah you came here too " and I would say " Brother, please do not go like that next time " . It was very fun now while recalling it but then it was boring, irritating and very annoying.

No.3 Kashi

This is the longest adventure I had. The adventure lasted 5 days. It was a journey to Kashi of 1 and half day it was amazing in the train , we laughed , we played and slept in the train. After one and an half day we reached Kashi and then we went to our room where we took rent. We slept there until we went home and then in the morning we woke up early , fresh upped and went to temple and from there we went across the river on a boat. There the birds were very beautiful and white in colour . We fed them with Murukulu (a snack). We kept the snack in our hand and stood by keeping the pam open , without moving for a while then the birds would come and snach the snack from our hands and eat, when they take snack from our hand it tickles very much .

Then after that we took dips in the sacred water. I was too afraid of the water those days so I took some dips and came out faster than anyone else but my sister unlike me is the one who just spend most of the time playing in the water for a long time till my parents called her to come out.

Then my sister , my uncle and I went away from there because if we will be there then my parents and grandparents would ask us to cut our hair because it is a sacred place and there is some known fact that who ever gives their hair in that place they would be blessed but we don't want to cut our hair so we went. In the bank of the river there was sand and we played there for some time. Then again in boat we went back to our room. We spent another day there . And then again went back to our home on train.It was very nice that I could see the birds right now in front of my eyes when I think about them they were so beautiful.

No .4

This is the best adventure I ever had with my friends. It was night camp in the school with my friends. Our parents dropped us at school in the afternoon , every class was given a room. After we went and kept our bags in our room. We came down played many games . After playing we had snacks . After having the snacks we climbed camels, saw pottery and the best was we even danced , why it the best because I used to not dance but i do not know what happened at that time but i danced with my friends in DJ.

After wards we had dinner together with my friends .In the morning we woke up early and came to the school ground and done some exercises. Then we went back to our rooms and packed our bags and came down. Later our parents came and took us home one by one. Oh I miss my friends very much but now I want to mention my best friends names here from my 4 , 5 and 6 class they are Harshitha and Geet I could never forget you my friends. But after 6 I had to change my school but I do am with contact with them.

-By Tapasvi

Posted Jul 16, 2021
Share:

You must sign up or log in to submit a comment.

6 likes 0 comments

RBE | Illustrated Short Stories | 2024-06

Bring your short stories to life

Fuse character, story, and conflict with tools in Reedsy Studio. All for free.