This Is Not Childhood|Chapter:5 (Our School-Trips)

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During this pandemic, under lockdown, many of us are seeking something new & creative within.
You might even have looked after your born-baby photos.
Like recently I’ve told it in Chapter:3.

And this time I’ve found there’s still something left aside in photo albums, there came a thought of checking out my photos with friends (school-friends), with trips. With cozy trips. With funny trips. And trips. Hahaha!

In school days, we just had a chance to click photos at trips only, what else then, eh? (Not during school, it wasn’t allowed you know)

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Those photos bring us close to us, reminding us that there’s nothing to be missed.
Yet though, we after instance of glance, do it again. And again.
It always messed up saying:

“Look at pictures, I miss them: those happiest moments.”

Like, you, I am still living all that inside.

It’s just a part of a photo as if we are remembering some highlights of a favorite movie.

This happens often while reorganizing mobile phones, laptops, hard drives, for backup. That one photo, that 10 seconds or a 1-minute clip pulls us back to the same flashback.

And then we begin to ride our boat of thoughts over the ocean, and the ocean that seems so small against our thoughts or even the tsunami would be no big.

Because that reminds us, brings us back. Back to us. It brings so much value.

It’s like having tons of photos of recent trips, versus, only one photo of school-time.
We’d always choose the second one.

But I don’t understand why.

Why do we say we miss it? Even if we are reliving it.

So, if we are sitting right in front of our laptop screen or having a portrait-sized photocopy of our memorable piece, we don’t even feel where we are.
Where’s the chair, where’s a photo?

Like I said; loads and lots of thoughts as if we are sailors to the ocean and thoughts (memories) are absolutely larger than that.

Of-course, we are not present, until we are aware of it.
Thus, the memory would never fade, but we can, we may if and only if we believe we are missing it.

Let me tell you; if you, me, and we all are missing then we are just not aware.
Because there’s nothing to be missed, try it thinking fine & deep.

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Try sending those pictures to your buddies and observe a little.

Maybe we are in our childhood always; at least whenever we want to.

We can refresh all this by having it once a day, or a week or why not once a month?
Or we can even refresh it right after reading this, can’t we?

So how can we conclude it saying we are missing childhood.

I don’t know what childhood exactly is!
But we are surely not missing it, because what we say we are missing, we can have it daily.

Then again moving around a circle

and the same question — What is childhood?

Just like previous chapters, let me tell this again.

Some questions are better to keep unanswered. Sometimes forever.

So, what is childhood?

I’m linking previous chapters, in case if you’ve missed reading them.

(Chapter:1)

This Is Not The Childhood|Chapter:1

(Chapter:2)

This Is Not Childhood|Chapter:2 (Indoor Games)

(Chapter:3)

This Is Not Childhood|Chapter:3 (Photo Albums)

(Chapter:4)

This Is Not Childhood|Chapter:4 (Cartoon Shows)

Thanks a lot dear, I value your attention so much.