Childhood
Children are beauty of human life. You and I were one of many human beings to have lived & experienced childhood. I realized it and felt strongly that children enjoy the most because I came across an incident in morning.
I was coming to the office morning time. I had to abandon my daily route to office and explore new one. Reason being the “palki”. Main highway was blocked as thousands of devotees were travelling barefoot. Therefore, I tried to get to the road from where I could reach office as early as possible. Alas! All of my attempts were unsuccessful except the last one. Fortunately, I was told to take route from charoli to lohgaon and finally vimannagar. I managed to reach charoli bypassing kaljewadi. While coming from kaljewadi a group of three-four children along with their mother were walking down the street to the village kaljewadi. They waved their hand to stop me for a short lift. I too stopped, seeing their tender faces. Soon they sat on backseat of my bike. Three of them could occupy backseat as they were very small in size. I took off from that point; I can remember the mother had a smile on her face at that point of time. It was short journey of 2-3 kilometres along with little ones, but they enjoyed a lot and cracked jokes. I too shared the space with them and laughed at their jokes and tricks. On the way, I asked their names. The elder amongst them replied she is ruchita, she is nikita and I am amol. I was happy that the kids residing in rural areas no more feel shy to tell their names. When the destination came, they asked me to halt the bike. Amol hurriedly got down and fled away. While ruchita and nikita could not get down that fast, they got down slowly and just smiled. I waved my hand to them and began my journey to office. They gave me the valuable experience that I could cherish.
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