Missing my childhood? No way...

It’s 2:00 PM. All that I have been up to this day until this hour was a total couch potato type of a person. I have the remote on my hands while lying with a pillow in my head watching DVD movies. The usual stuff I do during my days off. Six hours more and I will head to the office to work. Yes! Work, work, work. That has all that I have been doing ever since.

Well, time has really gone so fast. Yesterday, I was just like sleeping the whole night and now left with nothing to do still… “blorrkkk”.. says my stomach. So, I get up and tried to think of something to eat. To lazy to cook for now so I grabbed my coin purse and take out P15.00. One banana on stick and Coke “sakto” will do. Pretty weird combination but I love it.

I went to the store to pick up some banana and soda but to no avail. Thus, I change my mind and picked up this “chichirya” (junk food) and paid P10.00. On my way back to my pad, our neighbor whom we call Nanay Guring saw what was on my hands and started teasing me like “getting back to being a kid huh!” . I just smiled nad answered, “nah, just something to chomp while watching TV. The comment though has strike my thoughts, my kiddy years.

Where was I when I was a kid? What were the most unforgettable things that I did when I was still a toddler, a kid, a child? I don’t even know what had happened before. I can only remember one thing though I was still a kid, work work work!

It haves been maybe a pretty tough years for me to imagine about how was I when I was a kid. All I can remember are those times when me and my siblings have less time to play, less time for leisure, less time for watching TV, less time to roam around the city and more time on school and work.

We are raised by our parents, me and 3 of my siblings by then our youngest was not yet born around that time. My mom used to work as a dedicated mother thus my father is the one leading the family. He works for a small lumber company as a laborer. Thus this explains why we need to focus on school and help our mother to the works at home. We don’t have TV but we do have and AM/FM radio in which feed by a battery good to last for 2 weeks or a month (unless its Everyday Battery, last long). That’s all we got for a leisure time. Tuning in to FM station and listening to radio dramas catered by AM stations.

As a child, I would say that we never tasted childhood years co’z we are too busy to accommodate our mother’s errands. Wash, cook, sweep, afternoon nap and back to cook, wash and sleep. It’s only during Saturdays and Sundays when we can play along with the neighboring kids. We used to play “patintero”, hide and seek etc, the usual games that everybody grow along with. Our Sundays by then was spent according to our Sunday tasks. When we woke up, go straight to the bathroom and take a shower, dress up, come to the table for breakfast and go to church. After the church, we need to settle ourselves at home as our mother would scold us if we go out. We can only go out after the afternoon nap but by then it would be around 4pm and that means by 6pm we need to prepare for dinner. Pathetic but worth it.

Our friends have been wondering why we are not using so much of our time to play while we are still kids. They would always wonder why they are not like us. Well, that’s how they are raised. In our case, we are trained to be responsible co’z life has its limitations thus we need to know what are the things that are worthy and what are not. Our parents may have secluded us from the other kids co’z they know this kids have better future even if they are just out on the open and play whenever they want to. We are just an average family. My father’s wage is enough to raise his wife and children. At that point, we the kids understand what our parents have implemented to us.

I may have lost my childhood but I still know I was once a kid. So when I chomp these junkies in front of me, I always remembered those days that we are not able to do this when we were young. Everything may have come to us so late but I did not regret anything that had made me of who I am today. Childhood years may have been one of the most special part of everybody’s life but I could say it was still special despite of the less play, less roam around, less TV etc.

I always treat myself as a kid.