An Interesting Story from my childhood

              A childhood memory was the happiest story for me.  I still have a good memory about my sweet childhood. It was a time where I used to spend my whole time for having fun with my friends without any worries. I was very lucky at that time but nowadays things are different. Kids were not really have the true meaning of happiest childhood memory. They just sit at home in front of computers. They play video games, mobile phones, tablets or any small personal computers. Kids rarely went outside to socialize or play traditional games with others. It is very different with my childhood era because my childhood is a part of my past sweet memory that grew deeply in my mind. Every time I want to go back to my childhood, it is always sweet to recall it again. My brother and his friends, me and my friends used to play together to create the unforgettable moments.

             I used to gather and hold a small party to make an unforgettable event with my old friends. I was not a rich person who can hold a big party such as going to McDonald, malls, and fabulous restaurants. I think modern people will do that kind of things. Different with my childhood, my old friends and I would spend our time by gathering and holding a small party such as cooked together outside of our house, fished in small spring, and built a tree house.

Every Saturday night we used to cook together. We would collect some money, and buy the ingredients. We cooked together to make fried rice and noodles. After we have finished cooking, we would eat the food together. No matter it tasted delicious or not as long as we eat together, everything felt so nice. We closed our dinner by enjoying our time; share a story and burn some cassavas.  

The next morning was the happy Sunday to go fishing together in a small spring near rice field. We used to catch small fish by using bare hands. However it was very hard to just catch a small fish but we never regret. We felt happy to catch a fish in a hot sun which burnt our skin so we would play water to refresh our body.

Then in the afternoon, we would build a tree house. We collected some woods and bring cardboard box to build a small tree house. A small tree house accommodated for us to gather and spend our time together. So that was our special event which gratified in my mind.

            Traditional game was a tool for us to keep our togetherness stay longer. In modern era, I hardly see any tolerant kids because they have their own individual business. Almost all children that I know, they just spend their time by studying and playing modern games from modern technology. I doubt that they even know a little about traditional games. So I am very lucky to have such a good memory, a memory about every kind of traditional games.

In my era, I used to play some traditional games to change our boring time into a good time. Some traditional games we used to play such as hide and seek, protect the castle, go back to the door, softball, and many more. For softball, we only use a stick that was made from small wood and tennis ball. This game was the most exciting game I have ever done. We hit the ball, ran, and went back to the starting line while the opponents were waiting for the ball. Although it was a simply game but we did it enthusiast and sportive.

The next game was hide and seek. For this game, some groups would hide as the criminals while others would seek as the police. I never liked to be the police because it was quite hard to hunt the criminals. This game would be easy for the police when they could find the criminal’s hiding place. We would run, chase, and laugh together for this game. So this game was very exciting to do.

Then the other traditional game was a game about protect the castle. I used to try hard to be a hero who could save my friends and get opponent’s castle but ended up with failed. There were still a lot of traditional games that we used to play to spend our time together. The key of playing any traditional games was our togetherness to keep our solidarity.

            My memorable childhood was not too far from these memorable places. Those memorable places were rarely found in this modern era. Too many buildings are built. They start to condemn rice field, river, small garden, and old football field. There is only badminton court which left behind with new construction so kids are no longer using it for playing. Unfortunately, kids have no more places to play. They should pay to get a place to play like gamezone. Then again, I would say that I am very lucky to have those nice memorable places. My memorable childhood existed because of those places too.

Some places still clearly remembered me about my past childhood memory. These places were rice field, garden, and badminton court. In the rice field we used to spend the harvest time by playing with yellow paddies. It would be nice during sunset, the view was very calm. The other place was garden. Garden was also a place for us to build a tree house and cook together. There were a lot of stories about my childhood from each corner of this garden. If there was no garden then there would not be a sweet memory that I have now. Then the last memorable place was badminton court. There would not be traditional game if we did not have this court. So we used to play most of all traditional games in this badminton court. A lot of stories came from those places. We had all of those memories together because we had those convenient places.

            Every single day that I used to spend in my childhood memory was never be erased. The unforgettable events, the traditional games, and the memorable places were the happiest moment I have ever had in my life. Those were the precious moments that cannot be paid by anything. The modern things have changed everything but my past childhood memories never be changed and still clearly patch in my mind. Through this story, I hope that nowadays children should appreciate their own childhood. Children should start to love the traditional games instead of modern games. It is because the togetherness and tolerance created from here.