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Early life in my birthplace Kanker was really simple and easy as my father had a stable business, I was young, wild and free of responsibilities, It was a really small town where from my infant age all I did was explore businesses of my families and the small little town rich with natural beauty. Almost everybody in the city knew me well, Not to gloat but I won first prize in a state wise fancy dress competition where I was dressed up as Lord Krishna and the most intriguing thing I did was eat cream from a big pot and that was all I was attentive to, Also as I was born a restless stroller and I was 10 kgs in weight in my age 1, My mother always needed someone to take me strolling in the neighbourhood but due to my weight nobody could hold me long enough so I was always switching arms, Those things made me a popular kid but the more pop that I got, also brought so much envy towards me and my family; Envious eyes bring evil hexes along too. Thus I often had fever but my mother knew ways to break such curses.
Growing ahead of my infant age I was still a restless stroller so when I was put in a school, I couldn't be bound to the strict regulations of school where I had to sit and spend hours in consistency so I finally figured out a way to escape in the middle of my school sessions and I ran to my cousin's place and played games instead. It ain't that I wasn't interested in what the pre-primary school had to teach me but I already had learnt what they had to teach in my kindergarten times and I also couldn't bear my aching ankles while sitting on a mat in the ground thus I always figured out a way to skip attending classes in "Saraswati shishu mandir"; At one point in time my father put up one of his staff on duty for supervising whether infant Anki is attending his classes or crying to blackmail his teachers into relieving him from those. Then when I was allowed to leave the boy in duty would bring me home straight instead of letting me go out of his sight.
As for me I'm such an escapist since my childhood that I never liked people knowing my whereabouts ever. I like to feel free as for wherever I want to be, I don't always want to be reachable to people cause I've known & loved my freedom of choice since I was very little no matter if it cost my parents being worried sick about my whereabouts, as I grew up to ride a bicycle nobody knew what I would be capable of then, As Kanker was a very little town and was surrounded by all that nature mainly consists I became a consistent explorer along with my classmates, I'd ride off to nearing villages, fields, farms, forests, gardens and whatnot. Being such an explorer I learnt many things when I was little such as climbing trees, catching chickens in farms, escaping snakes, stealing fruits, climbing walls, running from a chasing guard and making excuses to skip punishments. Now that I've grown up to be the better explorer I learnt to love each and every experience I've ever had to embrace them and live life in the present that I have no regrets about any exposure that wasn't pleasant. I believe what pleases you and what doesn't is merely a process of thought that can be moulded in any way, and I always choose it to be pleasant.
When I grew up to be merely 9 year old, I had possibly everything that appeals a kid to stay home, Toys, PSP, I-pod, Television, DVD player, Nintendo, Lots of music CDs of pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Akon & a whole DVD store to choose my CDs from; It was probably enough to keep anyone Home. But I'd still run off to somewhere as soon as I got the chance, for my love of natural beauty that surrounded my little town, My parents tried each and every trick in their playbook to keep me from being a stubborn stroller but I always found me loopholes. And then when I finally turned ten my parents bought me a Nokia mobile phone all for myself. I was to stick to that phone as any other average kid ties a belt in its waist to keep his jeans from going down. It was stressing to be responsible for that phone as it was like a tracking tool for my parents to know my whereabouts, Couldn't ditch the phone as it made me the coolest kid of all, had games and music in it for entertainment and many kids older than me used to seek it. Yet again it couldn't shake my freedom of choice as I couldn't go too far but there was a hill nearing my friend's house so I learnt to make an excuse about spending time in his house doing my Home work and as soon as we were done with the homework we used to spend rest of our evening on top of the hill feeding bananas to the monkeys.
Since my early days in that little town I was a cheery, curious kid and my presence was cherished everywhere. There are so many questions still left unasked and unanswered since my very childhood till now; But I'd ask a fresh one right away which regards the phrase "We should learn from our past experiences" I think why do we only have to learn from it, Why don't we also learn from each and every little occurrence, why do we only have to learn from it when we can even cherish each and every past memory and learn to be wiser from it as each little memory was either a good memory or bad either way it was a blessing & a lesson too. We shouldn't just try to embrace all memories but also learn to enhance our lives keeping past hurtful happenings from happening.
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