Joys of Life

Memories that make me nostalgic but may not happen again.

• Summer vacation in my 3rd class when Anand, Arvind and myself climbed trees to pluck fruits and eat them.
• 4 people playing choukabara on the floor and the excitement to see what my next throw of die shows up.
• Staying out of the house 10 AM to 10 PM playing with the children of the colony.
• Having dinner just to have that mango supposed to be had after dinner.
• Studying for the last exam every year imagining the days to come after 12 PM the next day.
• Small fights with Megha everyday.
  
• Going to movies with mom every Saturday.
• Jumping the wall separating the primary and secondary school with Aparna.
• Sharing the PJs as the greatest comedy in life with schoolmates.
• Combine-study with Savita with intervals of kobri mithai and puliogare.
• Waiting for the games period to play In-out dodgeball with classmates.
• Anxiety of April 1st every year waiting for the exam results.
• Sharing secrets with Arpitha with promises of truth.
• Power cut times in the night where the whole street is out with kids on road and parents at the door. I loved dancing in the night on the street :P
• Endless games of carrom and lagori played with Ashwini,Ashish,Seema and Alok.
• Cool weather of June and the hangover of the summer vacation.
• Sharing lunch with classmates at school narrating the stories of endless number of movies I watched.
• Sharada madam tuition classes with loads of fun with Sunil and Sanju.
• Hoarding 10000 coins in game of Monopoly.
  
• Stealthily eating sweets and chocolates in classes. Sorry to the teachers. :)
• The walk to the maths tuition with Arpitha and Shwetha.
• Planetarium visits and discovery channel discussions with Melonie.
• Night stay watching movies with Shilpa.
  
• Letter writing to friends far off - Nidhi and Ashish.
  
• Eating churmuri at street corner.
• Waiting for summer to have JOY ice cream.
• Talking diaries of the daily chores to Ashwini.
• Van gang to BASE and abundant fun. especially jokes cracked by Venkat intentionally and Meghana unintentionally.
• Bunking classes with Deepika and Kavita at college to have chat and chikki at Hanuman stores.
• Star-gazing with Archana.
• Watching SRK movies at home with a group of 10.
• Bulbing at the Titanic movie munching stuff through out.
• Mugging the freedom struggle with Gowri.
  
• All the groups of three that I always had.
  
• Mugging for quizzes at IIT library one day before.
• Preparing for dance shows and failing on stage.
• Forest-trek throughout the campus.
• Early morning visits to the beach and the murugan idly.
• Night-out mugging for the quiz and night-out chatting after the quiz.
• Open air theatre movies.
• First year of job - the fights, the chats and the movies.
  
• Stay with Nitika at AECS.
• The three musketeers.
• Age of SMSing the fiancee at the drop of a hat.
• Endless shopping, eating and movies in the engagement period.
• The hurry of arrangements of marriage.
• Thrill of the honeymoon.

After the honeymoon, you stop. You have grown up. You have responsibilities. The next time you come back to this list is when you have your kid. I had a very happy childhood. I shall add to this list when I re-live the childhood of my kid :)