Do we really wanna go back to our Childhood....

I have heard almost everyone saying that childhood days were the best and some of us actually wanting to go back and live the childhood again!!!!! 

Today while talking to a child, I realized that how badly children wanna grow up. She just asked me, "Di, how much did your cell cost?" and said, "You know what, when I'll grow up, I'll buy the best cell of the latest technology of my CHOICE!!!!". She emphasized on the word CHOICE. Being a child, how much we love the thought of freedom when we grow up, how much we hate being scolded by parents with no fault of ours. How we plan our wish list of buying things when we start earning!!!! so we don't have to get our smallest demands getting scrutinized by our parents like having an ice-cream or even a packet of chips. 

But when we grow up, we just kill the child in us. We lock our "when we grow up" wish list and throw away the key. For today, whatever you do, just think was it possible to do the same in your childhood. Notice the smallest activities we do in your daily life like waking up late, having an ice-cream, spending money without asking anyone, sleeping late, "watching T.V", surfing net, going for a movie, hanging out with friends, eating what you want..... the list is endless. Enjoy every such moment.  

Life is beautiful at all stages, not just in childhood :).

Excerpt from the Speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis.

Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
 
One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

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