Childhood to Adulthood




"Childhood days were the happiest" is one of the most common phrase heard during day to day conversations of adults trying to move forward and live their life through the wheels of memories, experiences and learning. Maybe, it is because how perfect we are born and how imperfect we become while growing up and passing through the realities of the world. A short piece of writing describing this journey with hope that we can beam like babies and children again...

From childhood to adulthood I have learnt many things.

Parents, teachers, adults, elders, and many others taught me many things and I have transformed to an adult from child.

Learned, is what I assumed myself until I understood that I am not.

It was then when I saw a child and he smiled blissfully at me,

While I was still finding a reason to smile.

Then I thought why it is so, and after pondering I learnt what I knew when I was a child and what I learnt while I became an adult.

When I was a child, I never differentiated,

They taught me equality, and I learnt to discriminate.

When I was a child, I never knew the limit of world,

They taught me what is a country, and I learnt to create boundaries.

When I was a child, I loved everyone,

They taught me love, and I learnt to hate.

When I was a child, I never knew fear,

They taught me to be brave, and I learnt to be afraid.

When I was a child, I was not afraid of doing anything,

They taught me what is possible, and I learnt what is impossible.

When I was a child, I was never shy,

They taught me to be bold, and I learnt to get embarrassed.

When I was a child, I never knew to falsify,

They taught me to tell the truth, and I learnt how to lie.

When I was a child, I never cheated anyone,

They taught me to be truthful, and I learnt to deceive.

When I was a child, I never knew God but I always believed Him,

They taught me who is God, and I started disbelieving him by not believing other Gods.

When I came to know God, still I never blamed him,

They taught me to believe He would take care, and I learnt to curse Him.

When I was a child, I was always blissful,

They taught me happiness, and I learnt to be happy ‘occasionally’.

When I was a child, I beamed when I wanted to,

They taught me to smile, and I learnt to smile incidentally.

When I was a child, I always shared others’ joy,

They taught me to do that not, and I learnt to be jealous.

When I was a child, I enjoyed even smaller things,

They laughed at me, and I still don’t understand what to enjoy.

When I was a child, I knew everything,

They taught me some things, and I forgot many things.

Now I am an adult wanting to be a child,

But I fear the learned will call me childish.

And when I was a child, I never feared what others will think,

And now, I am an adult and I hardly fear what I will feel.

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