#MobileFreeChildhood…
Remember those days when you could play cricket all day long in the scorching heat without reaching out for mobile games like Pokemon Go. Or the time when you could remember the phone numbers of your real friends by heart and didn’t need to connect with them on Facebook? Yes, those were the days when childhood was actually mobile free, casual and true fun.
So, what does #MobileFreeChildhood mean to you. Here are some that are close to our hearts.
There were real parks
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Hanging from trees and enjoying the whole day with your friends in the open. Wish we could do that today as well.
Cartoons were simple but fun
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It was the favourite thing with which we could spend our entire day. Whether it was: Tom & Jerry, Scooby Dobby Doo, The Mask, Micky Mouse, Popeye The Sailor Man, Oswald or our very Indian Shaktimaan. We loved them all and had a proper schedule to watch them.
2. Pen Fights
A favourite time-pass in school time. I used to use a heavy pen just to get an edge in this game over others.
3. Used to search encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesaurus’ instead of Google
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The time for all school projects when the only thing to our rescue was encyclopedic, rather than Google things out.
No Instagram, no selfies, no facebook
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It was a time when we used to tear pictures of our favourite stars from newspapers and magazines and hide it in our textbooks.
Hide & Seek was the best time pass
The game we used to play all the time, every day and still never got bored of it.
6. Cross and knots page in our notebooks
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The last page always had our friends’ phone numbers, our favourite ‘kaata zero game’ and of course those messages.
Covering Notebooks
Please don’t remind me of it. ‘Is Kaam me to achhe-achhe ko naani yaad a jaye’. But we still did it because sticking the name labels was so much fun.
Laser lights
The crazy fascination with laser pens. Today, we rarely see them, forget getting fascinated by them.
The innocent crush in school
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No mobiles, no Twitter, no Facebook, but yet you fell in love and knew how to tell him exactly the way you felt.
No digital maps and still you went everywhere, asking random strangers the way
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You asked for directions, learnt from nature, once in a while got lost as well, but survived any way without GPS and Google Maps.
Share your favourite #MobileFreeChildhoodMoment with us.
Author’s Name: Pulkit Kalra
