There's a spark in you...: Happy Childhood for a Happy Future :)

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." ~Tom Stoppard

These are just some photos which I was able to produce soft copies of and I was able to save in my external hard drive before, but don't worry. I am going to update this post as soon as I got back in my hometown and invade my photo album. :)

Anyway, let's get back to the track.
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Perhaps, the most exciting and most memorable part of everyone's childhood is the time we used to play. I remember myself sneaking from my mother or from my father or from our babysitter or from whoever is guarding me not to get out of the house after having a lunch meal. Most probably, what we were doing past 1 was lying on the bed or sofa while watching our favorite noon time game shows like Game Ka na Ba? and Magandang Tanghali Bayan. But yeah, kids will do everything just to get along with their playmates. I used to pretend to be asleep and really wait for the one who is babysitting me to fall asleep. Once I can sense that he/she are really asleep, I have this feeling of saying like "Yes with the :> *smug!" :)) Once I manage to get out of the door, I feel so free even though it's too hot outside. Maybe, I don't mind it that time or maybe, I don't even care about my complexion. Like who cares? My friends did the same thing too. :)

So, we used to gather at this clubhouse in our village. I used to be with a mixture of boys and girls group but majority of them were guys which was composed of my cousins who are mostly guys. (When I was a child, I think I'm the only girl...ohh, yes...I AM THE ONLY GIRL among the grandchildren of my father's side. We were 9 kids that time. So I'm like boy-ish that time.) I think I was 5 or 6 when I got so active to play under the sun. We, playmates, specifically have little gaps between our ages. So maybe you can actually predict what happened to us: the one who's the eldest acted like 'the leader' or 'the boss' most of the time. The middle ones were the followers while the youngest kids among our group were the 'saling-pusa'. :))

Why is this memorable for me? It's simple. :)
It was the time I started to learn things. I started to make friends and 'enemies' or it's more known as the 'bati' and 'di bati' :)). I started to try out and discover new things like reaching a high position/get a higher elevation on the swing, do the cartwheel though I cannot do it now, catch butterlies, ride a bicycle, scooter & rollerblades, and play basketball (I am thankful about this because I can do free-throws in my FWTEAMS class. (:). I also learned to care for my friends that time. For example, someone gets hurt. We help out each other as best as we can and it promoted teamwork. We also met adults like the parents of each of our playmates. It was indeed a memorable experience to be treasured and should always be part of our lives or atleast, my life.

Ohh yea. :">
I used to be a crybaby when I was a toddler until I got into elementary.

Oh well...

Given the opportunity, would you share or allow this incident be experienced by another person? Who would be this person? Why would you want to impart such experience? My answer for this question would be, DEFINITELY YES and it would be for the kids of this generation. As you might have observed around you, it isn't a new or shocking thing to see kids have different gadgets like iPod, iPhone, Wii, PS3 and Xbox. Maybe they've got better phones than us. That's practically life, everything changes. There's no doubt that life today is totally better than before because everything is almost instant and easy. Kids of this generation tend to just stay in their homes and spend the whole day playing computer games. Well in fact, some of the parents today even prefer their kids to just use technological devices rather than to go out of the house. It's just sad not seeing these kids involve themselves in physical activities anymore which might trigger them to acquire illnesses. Moreover, there might be a large probability that these individuals are going to acquire poor social skills. As we all know, communication skill is one of the most important factors in the society. It is then rightful for these kids to experience the lifestyle we had before because it offers more than we're thinking.

It is not yet late to create BETTER childhood memories. Let the kids have freedom, let them play with nature.

We need to have something good to look back as we get older.

Update: Here are some of the additional photos of my childhood.