Wherever we may be in the world today, one truth remains: we lived in the real world, and we grew up in reality.

*We Too Had Our Own Era*

There was no concept of kindergarten. After the age of six, we simply went to school on our own. There was no practice of being dropped off by bicycle or bus.

Our parents never feared that something bad might happen if we went to school alone.

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All we understood was Pass or Fail.

Percentages had nothing to do with us.

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If someone said they had joined tuition classes, it felt embarrassing…

because people would mock them as being dull or weak in studies.

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We firmly believed that by keeping leaves from trees or peacock feathers inside our books, we would become intelligent.

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Arranging books and notebooks in a cloth bag, and later in a tin school box with a chain, was our own little creative skill.

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Every year, before filling the school bag for the new class, covering our books and notebooks felt like an annual festival in our lives.

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At the end of the year, selling old books and buying second-hand ones never felt embarrassing to us.

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For our parents, our education was never a heavy financial burden.

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Sitting one friend on the front bar of a bicycle and another on the rear carrier, we roamed the streets endlessly.

Today we cannot even remember how much we traveled like that.

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When teachers punished us at school—making us hold our toes, twisting our ears till they turned red—our ego never came in the way.

In fact, we didn’t even know what ego meant.

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Getting scolded or beaten was a normal part of daily life.

Both the one giving punishment and the one receiving it seemed satisfied!

The punished student felt happy thinking, “At least I was beaten less than yesterday,”

and the teacher felt satisfied that he had exercised his authority again.

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Playing cricket barefoot, with any ball available and a wooden bat, whenever we got time on the playground—only we know the joy of it.

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We never asked for pocket money, and our fathers never gave it either.

We hardly had any demands.

If we had a small wish, someone in the family would fulfill it.

Even if we got puffed rice or a simple snack once in six months, we were extremely happy.

During festival, small celebration also never felt insulting to us.

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We never told our parents how much we loved them,

they showed unconditional love always.

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Today we are part of this world, facing countless comparisons and struggles.

Some have achieved what they wanted…

others wonder, “Who knows…?”

Those friends with whom we rode double or triple seat on bicycles in school days—

where have they all disappeared?

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Wherever we may be in the world today, one truth remains:

we lived in the real world, and we grew up in reality.

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We never knew that there could be anything more in a lunch box during recess than simple rice and curry.

Without ever blaming our fate, we still continue to dream happily.

Perhaps those dreams themselves help us live.

The life we lived cannot be compared with today’s world at all.

😌

*we too had our own era*. 👍🏻

Sweet memories of our era for most of us

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