This Is Not Childhood|Chapter:2 (Indoor Games)
Oh hey there, Nirmit this side, read the first piece of this series?
Go read that first, it’d be better to travel from there to here.
It’s 9:28 pm, 20 March 2020 and India is taking actions with the best against COVID-19 aka coronavirus.
This is a corona virtual breakdown.
Many of us are having a sudden pause from the routine.
Having a vacation in schools, work from home, temporary hours, etc.
Now, what would people do these days staying at home, eh?
And also people in my apartments are playing board games, UNO cards, card games, chess-like indoor games.
There’s no option left as well, what say!
So, what has led me to write
the chapter -2 of This is not childhood.
Can you wait? I’ve to clean my messed up desk and bed with board games, hehe!
Alright, thanks for waiting.
So, last month my cousin was about to get married. He is so close to our family, therefore we were almost there in their home for 2–3 days before wedding.
Also, we all cousins of group 8–9 people around gathered there.
It’s way too fun to be there with cousins, eh?
Moreover, it’s too wonder if it’s more than not just hours, but for days.
I was in the same case by the way.
But, my brothers and sisters of my age (& around) were busy in managing stuff.
And I was only left who was 2–3 years older than every cousin I was with.
However, I decided to play with them. To play with brothers and sisters not of my age, hehe.
We started playing with a dark room, then cards, then some jokes & funny stories.
We really did fun altogether like damn.
I can still remember, many of my relative uncles and aunts told me not to play with kids.
Whereas their actual sense was
“You’re in college, grow up, you’re not a kid to play such lame game.”
And I found my new idea and a purpose to write on this thing.
Cannot we play with kids or people, not of our age?
Apparently, you know what they were discussing during dinner?
“This was how we played in our childhood. There were no mobile phones yet we played like hell. We played a lot. But now we miss that.”
And I keenly grabbed that line —
“But, now we miss that.”
They meant they were missing childhood.
You might ask me, “Hey stupid Nirmit, this is why you love to play with kids or you intentionally go to play so that you cannot miss your childhood?”
I’ve no answer for that my dear. But I’m sure that I’m having fun with such games.
Yes, I literally do.
Not because what if I’d miss it. No. Not at all.
Well, I want you to move to the 1st Chapter’s statement.
That says
“If we are missing it, then this is not childhood.”
So, yes I might not have been missing. But I really don’t know what childhood is!
At least missing something is not childhood.
If relatives say they’ve missed their old card games, then it is not childhood that they were missing.
If relatives say you’ve grown up, what would people think if you play games with kids, then it is their misconception regarding childhood.
That’s why they miss I guess perhaps.
If we are watching someone playing our type of childhood games and we are still missing.
Then it is not childhood that we are missing.
If we are missing something, then it is not childhood.
If I’m playing with those cute kids with the same old games and yet still missing my childhood, then I’m not missing my childhood, as missing is not even childhood.
And like I already delivered you the phrase in the last chapter. Allow me to have you again.
Some questions are better to stay alive. Sometimes forever.
That question is — What is childhood?
See ya in the next chapter.
Besides, would you bother asking this to your friend?
