I don't want to grow up, I want to remain Child for ever. Author: Dr. K. S. Kang

 

I don’t want to grow up, I want to remain child for ever

Author: Dr. K. S. Kang

I am a child of three years old living in the company of number of adults named Papa, Mammy, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, cousins, grand parents, including a number of granduncles and grandaunts. I was cajoled, caressed by some member of the family at one time while the same family member, I don’t understand, became furious with me at other time. I failed to comprehend why they were whispering almost inaudibly at one time while raising their level of voices to such a high pitch that they appeared to be shouting and quarrelling. Sometimes they would pamper me by bringing toys, sweets, candies, cotton candies, frozen desserts, chocolates, biscuits and the like for me while at the other times they were totally engrossed in their own affairs that they would ignore me completely so much that sometimes I had to cry to gain their attention and to assert the fact that I am also existing in this world. My queries about their strange ways are summarily dismissed with a single sentence “ You don’t understand it now, you will come to know about these ways of the world when you grow up”. There were moments when even some strangers claiming to be relatives show affection for me as if they know me since birth while at other times even my own blood near and dear relatives would completely ignore me, as if I do not exist.

Sometimes there was bickering even against the best of friends and even abuses exchanged loudly even between the best of the friends while at other times even foes behaved as if they were the fast friends just for a little selfish gain. I was simply unable to understand the unpredictable behaviour of the adults. I fail to understand that when passing before the shops in the market why the toys and sweets available in the abundance in the shops are not available for hungry people who cannot pay for these things. I was unable to understand why I was scolded when I took a toy from the shop that I liked and walked straight away towards my home. I fail to comprehend why I get some things repeatedly again and again why I am denied other few things again and again even though they are available in abundance in the market. For all this adults have only one sentence for me “ You won’t understand it now, you will come to know when you will grow up, as these are the ways of the world”. If the bickering, abuses, scoldings, wants, quarrels, arguments are the ways of the world that I would understand when I will grow up then in that case I don’t want to grow up, I always would like to remain a child for ever.