Childhood: The most precious state of our life
By: Sufiyan Khan
Tags: Kids, Wisdom, Childhood, Life Lessons

The age of childhood is such a priceless state, which we don’t realize at the time when we are kids. We are completely unaware of what is going on or what could come next. The only thing we really worry about at that time is, when we get to play next or what new toy we could buy, or when we will discover such a thing that could possibly add more fun to the arsenal of our toys.

These days toys have been replaced by cell phones. The ones who haven’t played with toys much, won’t ever realize the value, toys held to the previous generation of kids, which is a whole another topic of discussion.

The age of childhood is free from responsibilities, we don’t need to worry about earning money and we are never held responsible for anything, except for breaking glass utensils, spilling the floor with water, and troubling people in the house. Fun and joy was the primary purpose we lived for at that age.

During childhood we develop massive goals to achieve, we make idols and plan to become like them someday when we grow up. We form our aims and ambitions regardless of knowing the hard work it would take to be where we wish to be. But as we grow older, we become wise enough to evaluate things, the state of realization after a particular age reaches a height where we are sound enough to make our own decisions and build our own path towards greatness.

Before we do anything, we are completely aware of all the possibilities involved in doing that, the amount of risk it would take, positive, and negative outcomes. And this evaluation of possibilities is only possible when our mind is capable to think rationally and critically.

This ability to evaluate becomes a problem for most people. We evaluate things to such an extent that, after knowing about all the outcomes, we tend to focus only on the negative sides. Focusing on a few negative outcomes in spite of having hundreds of positive outcomes has always been a drawback among humans. And which becomes a reason why most people live their life way below their expectations.

The fearless state of childhood makes us take risks, makes us do whatever we want to do without thinking about outcomes or danger. A lot of times we succeed and many times we fail, but those failures never mark the end of our curiosity of trying out things. But slowly and gradually we get elder, that curiosity starts to fade away for most people, and many times the reason for that is due to over-evaluation of outcomes, or some past experience of being made fun of or laughed at for trying something different.

I think the time of childhood is extremely precious, and it’s ironic that we don’t realize it during that time. But as we grow up, when life starts to throw responsibilities, we have to make our way to become independent, various people’s expectations are upon us, including ourselves. That is when we come to know, what a golden period it was, and now it’s time to take the heavy load of responsibilities and make our way in life.

And that’s how life goes, we never realize the value of things at the time we have them, but once that is gone, we come to know how privileged we were when we had that. If it's a materialistic thing that went away, it may come back to us, possibly in a much better form. But, some things are such in nature that they will never come back to us.

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