childhood
Childhood is a beautiful illusion that all of us want to go back to. Almost all of the Romantics lamented about their long lost past and lone gone childhood. A constant longing to be carefree and careless. Rather than the scoldings here and the annual exams in a way tormenting the light off the kids..they dont have deadlines to meet and targets to complete. This is a two way road too. As Freud would say as much as the elders want to trace back to their childhood, the child too want to run off to a future taht is awaiting them ...to find out that there is nothing exemplary there like they thought. When I was a kid every guests who came to our school for Christmas celebration would constantly lecture about the importance of childhood. How they wish to ho back in time to the 'good old days' which now we understand there was nothing like those 'good' old days. It's all an illusion. A mirage that appears beautiful from a distance. All these years even it is adulthood o...