Old people say that childhood is the best part of
life. There is no doubt that child hood is the golden period in man’s life. Man
has nothing to worry about. No cares and no troubles. His parents are present
to serve him and love him. They look back at their childhood and remember all
its happy days -- the jolly games, the long rambles, in the country, the film
they had at school, the kind father and mother and the little sisters and
brothers, the old home, the sweets and cakes they used to eat, the children’s
parties, the jokes they used to play, and the present they got When they were
children, they had not to work hard to get something to eat; their mothers gave
them all they wanted.
Their childish troubles, as they look back on them,
seem very small and silly they laugh over them now. They had n- great sorrows,
no heavy burdens to carry, no dangers to face. The world to them then was a
very beautiful place, and they did not know that men could be cruel and hard.
They believed all that was told to me them, and they did not known how false
and dishonest people could be. They were simple and innocent, and as happy—as
the day was long. So they sometimes sigh and wish they could be children again.
Perhaps these old folks are right. And yet I think
they forget many things that were not so pleasant in their childhood. Perhaps if’
same fairy took them at their world and turned them into children again, they
.would not like it There is a funny story called vice versa (which.’ means”
turned the other way round”), that tells of a boy who was crying because he had
to go back to school after the holidays, and his rather scolded him and said.
“Why, I only wish I could be a boy and go to school again. “And the fairies
heard him; and all in a moment the father was a little boy, and his son was a
grown man like his father. A father, in the shape of a little boy, had to go to
school; and tell you he did not like it at all. A child’s troubles max seem
small to grown up people; but they are very big to him.
Yet, after all, perhaps childhood is the happiest
time. So while we are children, we should make the most of it. And it is a very
important time in a man’s life, as a great poet said. ‘The child is father of
man.” What he truant was, that a man’s character is largely settled in his
childhood. What sort of men we shall be depends on what we lead and what we do
as children? In short childhood is very important. Our later life totally
depends on our childhood. The boys, who work hard in their childhood, enjoy
their later life. On its contrary those who waste time in games feel sorry in
coming years. We must do something position in our childhood.