A Forgotten Taste of Life

Look at the delight in this boy...!!! This elated kid appears to be one of those who are deprived of all the costly funs and entertainments. Funs that kids from well-off   urban families may get going abroad in Disney Land or even going in some local amusement parks like Fantasy Kingdom, Nandan, Water Kingdom etc. But some of us who somehow have had such ecstatic moments in our childhood staying in villages or in small town sides could imagine how euphoric the feelings there used to be.( How about getting lost in such a seasonal jungle with the whole bunch in an autumn noon...!!? )... Specially, when the ring started rolling at high speed with every hit you make and it stays in your control, when the top started spinning for  longer times, when your kite survives the fight on the sky cutting down a lot of other kites...How did you feel when marbles started hitting marbles or hitting the mango on the tree with deadly accuracy…!!!!?

or  may be when you could finally make bigger swings with the Tarzan rope or   with the cradle tied in a brunch of a jungle tree.......!!!! ,

............................Those incomparable funs also include some improvisation and adventures like making a big floating raft stacking water hyacinth together with all the friends and then riding on it all together when it finally starts floating on water carrying the whole bunch of adventurous kids........,

Trust me ..not all the city side kids could get this taste every now and then in the season..

Aaaaaah.......those childhood funs.....!!!! Definitely not talking about the childhood of urban farm chickens....who cannot even imagine this sweet-tasting-adventure of sipping from the juice pot ( probably from some other's tree or pot.. ;) ) climbing up the date tree.... Can they...!!!? 

Hey, do you remember the fun of mudslide...!!?So , you see don't need to regret that you couldn't go to the water kingdom slides.....

You think the city kids could ever imagine to have such muddy fun...!!?    Oh...Maan.......!!!!  that used to be a great fun forgetting all the decent and careful practices of staying of out of dirt... Not sure if it was the scent of the mud  all over our body or the incredible joy of getting free from all the sense of cleanliness that used to make us laugh all the while we were  having that fun ..up until we were too tired or hungry or some guardian appears and makes us draw an end to that never ending fun......!!!  
And then the athletic wash....

There was no Chinese or Romanian instructor to help us doing this.. But they would sure be impressed and thrilled to see this athleticism what spontaneously used to  come out of a village kid's fitness . Ask the city kids to do it.... and you are most likely to hear  .."Yes , okay I am gonna ask Mom/Dad to get me admitted to gymnastics school.." Well..no wonder..., now at the city we all have to spend money even for  drinking water...!!

 So what to call it ....!!? Water Kingdom or Water in  Our Kingdom..!!? 


Whenever the school ground is submerged because of  trapped rain water or for the seasonal flood , this age group won't miss making the best use of it for their entertainment. Athletic and adventurous.. !!? No doubt...!!

So you think the urban farm chicks had this fun with all their costly amusement park experiences ...!!?

 The tree brunch or the bridge's pillar or any comfortable height adjacent to the river or to the pond are guaranteed to be utilized by these adventurous kids as their jumping and diving pad in rural Bangladesh.  

( We had to attend the test of patience too...while fishing ....!! ) 
Collecting  mangoes under the tree swinging with strong wind just before the summer storm….. well I can’t remember all of those countless and priceless amusements that thrilled our nerves in almost every day of our boundary-less childhood...!!!

What about the fun that you used to have everyday at the village pond ...!!!?
Tell you what!!... that also includes  facing the rage of your parents in case if it's more than once a day or if it took a long time to get back home. But the fun of this group bath is unparalleled to what kids try to get at different swimming pools in cities.

 Is there anything comparable to the day of group fishing in your village ...!!?


This really used to be a grand occasion for all the villagers of all age groups to enjoy....The whole day is spent catching, lancing , spearing, trapping fishes in the muddy water of a drying pond or of any low land in a very festive atmosphere.

                                                                    …And I do feel sorry for  many of the urban  kids who are actually deprived of  the taste of such un-chained upbringing…

Yuhh!!! all these pictures reminds me of my childhood, Alhamdulillah..!! what is enriched with so many precious moments like these in open fields, in jungles, along the river banks and so on. I got all those invaluable moments staying in or nearby different small towns, villages and some magnificent rural places of this beautiful country....!!!!