Some Childhood Memories

I remember the moment at about my four………when my mom was boiling milk in a pan on the stove. The milk was boiling and slowly evaporating. Mom tried to lift the pan from on the stove. I just ran to her, ‘maaaaaa..’ calling her pulled her hand lifting the pan. The boiling milk went down on top of my left palm. I instantly felt the heat and pain and started crying. My mom, getting schoked over my pitiable condition, lifted me in her hand, took me to the main hall of the home. Applied Burnol (an ointment) on the burn in my palm and consloed me. I couldn’t recall what after. The burn mark was visible on the back of my left palm even before some years. Now it’s vanished like my many other childhood memories.

In around my four or five, one of our relatives, aged around 55 whom we would call ‘mama’ came over to our house one day from the road side when I was standing on the veranda. He would often scare me for joke. That day also he frightened me with a small pcoket knife which would used for cutting raw tobacco by elder persons. Unlike before as I would dare to face his threat, that day I was scared so much at his knife point and went inside home making great shout. Mom and elder sister cheered me up to pull through the fear.

During the same age, whenever I asked my mom or dad about my came in to being, they used to tell me I was bought in the near by Sunday market for fifty rupees or a crow dropped me in the veranda, so they picked me and brought up. We were living in our house till I completed my five. I rarely remembe any celebrations took place in my family before my five. A beam of memory strikes in my mind about a Diwali celebration. My father, elder brother, elder sister and me all were playing crackers. My father played vicious crackers, the blast of which is heard in my ears even today. I retain only this much incidents around my childhood and about our own house situated in Kottar area of Nagercoil town. I did not know what happened to our house when we moved to a rented house near the main busstand of the town to a rented house.

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