Recollections of Childhood...

[tango92]

I think it was when I was 4 or 5 or maybe 6. Although I cannot even remember what age I was, I still remember that particular incident very vividly.
We had two live-in nannies to take care of me and my siblings. Mind you, most middle class indonesians have nannies to take care of their children so it is nothing extravagant like in the west. I was quite stubborn kid and maybe to a point where i exasperated my mother often, and my nanny of course.
That late afternoon, around 4, as usual my nanny was supposed to bathe me. But being a quite difficult child, I kept escaping from her because I still wanted to continue playing with neighbor kids. She did everything to make me willing to take a bath, from promising to give me sweets to threatening to tell my mum about my behavior, but nothing worked.
Finally she was going to take me to have a bath whether I like it or not. Well, i didn't like it and refused to go to the shower. So she chased after me, and I kept running, and then went into our neighbor's yard. Our neighbor had a well, a deep one, in their backyard. For some reason, I thought about hiding behind the well from my nanny, but next thing I knew, i slipped, and fell into the well.
I remember falling into it, and I remember I was in the water. I couldn't swim, and what happened next was hazy.
According to what my mum told me, my nanny screamed for help, and few neighbors came, although how fast I was not sure because at 4 normally most adults would still have been in their work, and one of them got a ladder to get into the well and saved me.
I remember what's next: I was in my bed, with my mum rubbing my tummy and back with special eucalyptus and some other oil.
I saw that my mum tried to suppress her anger with me for being such a difficult kid with thankful feeling for having me saved and well.

subhanallah. it reminds me of when yusuf AS was thrown into the well.

when i was around 5-10 i remember spending significant amounts of time just sitting down and thinking about the world and what i was learning about life. i think everything became too much for me from time to time, especially as each day is basically a novel experience at that age. i must have needed time to reconcile everything

 

[S.Belle]

I used to climb trees , along with cousins and distant cousins, and i remember being the best climber. We got into lots of trouble with adult relatives because of all the climbing we did. LOL

OMG i miss climbing trees its so peaceful up there until you see mom at the bottom yelling for you to get down....good times lol

 

[Muhaba]

^oh yeah, those were awesome times. childhood is such a carefree time!

 

[S.Belle]

It was 4th of July and we were having a cookout, I think I was about 10 or so at the time.
My dad set up a slipping slide thingie so the kids could play in the water. I didnt want to get my glasses all wet and what not so i went throught our sunroom (it has nothing but sliding glass doors to go in/out) I left the door open and put my glasses on the table. But before I could leave my mom told me to take something to drink to my grandmother so since I was rushing to play with my friends I quickly got the iced tea. And since my mom was on a cleaning spree earlier the sliding glass door was so clean it looked open. And I ended up running full speed into the door. I had tea all over me and a knot on my forehead and im sad to say it was not the first or last time did that LOL.

 

[aadil77]

My childhood was at a time when life was much more quiet. I best remember summer days walking barefoot down dirt roads, swimming in ice cold mountain streams, getting lost in the woods for 2 or 3 days. The first time I saw a wild bear in the woods (Later I made friends with her and named her Ambly) My Mom was furious when the bear followed me home. Give a bear a Hershy bar and it will follow you anyplace. When I got older I found out people have gotten killed trying to feed wild bears.

Yet sometimes I envy the kids of today. So much is at their disposal and there is so much for them to do. My age group only had what we could make with our own hands. Few neighbors, often learning how to make our own toys and do farm chores. But, we had the option of exploring the woods and river beds and learning about wild life. I initially liked to go hunting. But stopped hunting when I was about 15 or 16. I then found it was more enjoyable to look at a deer, then bring it home for supper.

bro woodrow you have had such an interesting life MashAllah, you made friends with a bear and brought it home LOL!

 

[GuestFellow]

Falling asleep in finance class? I was 18 so I know this does not count...age discrimination. <_<

I was really shy when I was little, blushed very easily. My relatives were coming to visit and I ran upstairs to hide under the bed. I was 6 years old then. I was just really shy and I'm still like that but I can't fit under the bed anymore... >_>

 

[tigerkhan]

if i got time in my life will write a book on it, but i urdu. Oh its not bad idea, i can write it now as i have time..

 

[De-TeR-mIn-Ed]

salaams

sum of these sound really cute...myn was a bit mre...boyish i used to go climb under the school fence with my brothers so i cud watch thm play crickt...dress up as a boy gosh i think i shud stop nw..im gna start cringing really badly