The summer vacation is the bestest time in a child's life, right? The final exam results are through once and for all. Everyone has accepted them willy-nilly. No other exam is looming large on the horizon. The school threat is a month away.
Wake up late, eat heaps of mangoes in all shapes and varieties, as slices, as 'aamras', as mango shake, as home-made ice-cream, and so on, and so on. Read very many story books, get pampered silly by parents, enjoy all sorts of excursions. Life was simply fun.
I suppose, ours was the last generation who thus enjoyed the vacation for the sake of vacation. Now there are any number of summer special batches. Parents eagerly register the kids' names in all such camps, and the punishing schedule is much worse than the school time itself.
May be, I am wrong, but I do think that both the mind and body of a kid needs a break, just sheer lazying around, living life to heart's content, simple joys, nothing much to prove, right? Hope such summer vacations would return, and soon.
The summer times of going to grandma's place, getting indulged there beyond wor(l)ds, beyond the typical discipline of gentle parents, playing with cousins, life would be simply great!
Pratima@ Remember the 'great' learning to swim? Simply getting thrown down the deep well? The whip (sp)lash of cold water! And then the tadpole swimming! Life was, well, LIFE!
Quote of the day: "Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke," says Julian Barnes
Word of the day: Summer vacation, and all is said!
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