Rotaru Marina, 161 L

When I was young

Childhood is a time which you remember with pleasure and of course not without tears in your eyes, is that period when life seems so good and without problems. For us children there was nothing else to do than to play and stare for a long time into our mother’s eyes. But of course, as other periods of life, childhood has its ending and at the end, all that you get are memories and life friends.

As I remember , my childhood was the best thing a kinder could wish now, without Internet and Video games. Of course, for my family, it was a very hard time to bring me up, that’s why I remember that every Christmas Eve, I was decorating a big flower, instead of a Christmas tree, and the only thing I could’ve dreamt for, was to have a real Christmas tree, and for my mom to come home from abroad, where she was. Also, I remember having a lot of friends, whom I used to play a lot, and now I highly recommend to children to get off their houses and to play with real kids, instead of chatting online. I didn’t have so many toys, that’s how I learned to value the less I was given. I wasn’t an ill child, but very spoiled when it’s about food. Every time I went to somebody’s house, the hosts used to call my grandmother and ask her “What does you nice eat? She doesn’t like anything she is given.” But then I remembered that in world there are people starving, and step by step I began to eat almost everything. Unfortunately we didn’t have any kind of family meeting on Sundays, but this also became a lesson for me as a future mother and wife, for when I’ll have my family, I will imply such kind of get-togethers. Then school came, I suppose the brightest time in my life, when I made a lot of friends and where remained a part of my soul, which will be always opened to come back there. Growing up I realized that my childhood, however it was, hard and tough, it was a motivational one, and full of real memories and it’s a pity that we are the last generation who had such an amazing and wonderful time, I’m really blessed.

To sum up I would like to say that even now when I see children playing, or when I walk near the kindergarten where I used to go, I become very sentimental, and this is a normal thing, as Constantin Brîncuşi said „We die then, when we stop being children in our souls”.