Remember when we were children
and slowly we had begun to start thinking on our own using our little brain to
understand the ways and working of life and surrounding things. Well, if you
remember that, it was fun, isn't it? Without knowing much but trying to come up
with our own way of nice made up assumptions. Those all assumptions will be
right till we start growing up. Eventually as we start growing up, we begin to realize
how wrong we were back then. I call those childhood earlier assumptions, which
we would have made up to confront our self as 'myths'. I'm sure we all have our
own several childhood myths, right? I would like to recollect and list few of
mine.
Grocery shopkeeper is the richest
person
There is a grocery shop near to
my home, where since from my childhood till today, I visit to get daily household
groceries. During my childhood days when I use to visit this shop with a bag in
hand and waiting for my turn, I use to think, we all have to pay this
shopkeeper and take stuffs to home but he can get anything from the shop to his
home for free. No need to pay money! I use to feel jelous and admire him on how
lucky HE is. So according to me, he was lucky and richest person I knew :)
Actors change costumes during
song
I think, this is a common myth which
most of us use to have during our childhood, right? Unlike today’s songs,
during early 90’s, the songs were very simple (both audio and video) with
maximum of 2 or 3 costumes and locations in one song. Whenever I use to see video
songs in chitrahaar or rangoli or chitramanjiri, I use to wonder, how come
hero/heroine changes there dress so quickly? It use to amuse me and I use to
confront myself thinking that they put one dress above another etc and when camera is not on them, they quickly
strip the current dress one after other until song ends or when it’s their last
dress :) Not
to forget, one more myth on same topic which I believed is that hero/heroine sing
songs and deliver the dialogues on their own. I never had an idea or thought about
dubbing!
Newsreader is very good at by-hearting
and she is LIVE
Till today on DD1, right at 7PM,
there is 15mins Kannada news show since from my childhood. I use to literally
think that the news reader by-hearts all the news and tells us LIVE sitting
somewhere. I use to wonder a lot, how come she doesn’t even miss a single day to
make her appearance at exactly 7PM. What if she has a function to attend or
have some urgent work at 7PM, what will happen to news and who will tell the
news? I use to wonder a lot! Do you think during that small age, I use to watch
news to understand what’s going? Certainly NOT. I use to sit with my grandfather
(he was very punctual to watch it every day) and observe newsreader if she
makes mistake or forgets and looks below quickly to remember back. I use to say
aloud, CHEATING-CHEATING-CHEATING, she looked down :)
God creates rain.
How rain comes? This question is
common, isn’t it? I use to think that God creates rain because we drink water
and utilize all the water and lakes and river gets empty. To re-fill them back,
God creates rain! LoL. Some times I also use to think that somebody (God) who
is above sky is crying and that itself is rain :)
Turning ON and OFF of Street lights
Have you ever wondered in
childhood about streetlights? I always use to think, how come street lights get
turned ON exactly when evening is saying good bye and turns back OFF in the
morning. Who controls those lights? I confronted myself that whoevers home is near
to that particular street light, they will have switch to turn ON and OFF that
particular street light. But then later, when a street light near to our home
didn’t had control in either our house or in any of the neighbor’s house, I confronted
myself that, somebody like municipality will control street lights to turn ON
and OFF at appropriate times. I thought, due to controlling turning on and off
of streetlights all at once by municipality, all the street lights are
connected with wires :)
A little man is inside our
stomach
I use to wonder, how come I come
to know that I’m hungry? I never use to understand how my stomach knows that it
is empty and got hungry. I use to confront myself, that there is a little man
in everybody’s stomach and he signals us that stomach is empty and we are
hungry. LoL
Teacher knows everything in this
world
During my very initial school
days, I still remember, the effect of teacher on myself and other children.
Whenever any child use to ask, any question about anything, my teacher use to
give convincing answer. She never says, I don’t know the answer! During those
days, I thought my teacher knows everything and she is the most intelligent person
who knows everything.
Well, I can go on and on about my
childhood myths but I’ll stop and would like to request you to take some time
out of your busy schedule and think about any of your childhood myths like how I
listed above and comment below about it (too much to ask?) anyways, forget
about commenting but at least promise me that you’ll seriously think and
recollect/remember about your childhood myths and enjoy them thus realizing how
fantastic CHILDHOOD was with all the innocence. Keep in mind that no matter how
much you earn or what all you do, we can never get back that golden era. So I would
suggest not forgetting about remembering and feeling happy about childhood once
in a while in this adulthood which is always filled with stressful life.
