I had a lovely childhood. My parents have a big family. With so many cousins and aunts and uncles and everyone, I think I was surrounded with love. I was doing great at school, too. So that’s why I had a quite difficult time to enter the next step in life, being a teenager. I wished I could have stayed being a child forever, though I safely passed my teenage world at last. :D

I sometimes wonder how many children have a nice childhood nowadays. I suppose there have to be MANY children! Well, look at the world today. Children are exposed to so many games and entertainment, various courses and education, things I couldn’t have in my childhood. They are so lucky, aren’t they? I was so happy just to have a simple bike and watch only one cartoon movie on TV at 16.30 each day back in the early 80s. 

One day I asked my 9 year old nephew to walk along a paddy field. He was so thrilled but not for long. Nothing to do there… just looking at the vast greenness, feeling the breeze slapping your face gently, listening to birds chirping, trying to catch small fishes in the small river, those kind of things. But soon he missed the TV and his Play Station set. He can spend hours playing it and he’s happy.

Yes, he’s happy while other kids are happy doing something different, too. That what matters most. Being happy.