Those childhood days

Today's post is written with memories in my heart, because i just spent the last half hour watching ad's from my childhood times. Cadbury ad's and hamara bajaj, such sweet innocent times ! I traced down almost all the cadbury ad's till date and i watched them all with a grin on my face. I went back to the times as a kid, when getting a cadbury was such a treat. You had to do something good, like get good marks on a test or help like a good child around the house and then you had a chocolate as a special reward. Such lovely days they used to be, when life was so simple and so were we.
My family would go shopping to fashion street once every few months and that used to be a big highlight in our lives. Dad would drive us all there and it would be our day out. We would get so many new clothes that most of the time we lost count, and then once back in the car on our drive home, my sister and i would excitedly open the bags and count. Count how many clothes each of us had finally got. Getting home would then be the last round, trying all the clothes out and parading around the house. Ok with ME mostly parading all about the house. One of my passing fads as a kid were to become a model you see, so everything had to be tried and worn and then i had to pose and ask " How's this?" ! Those were the good old days i so miss.
Sunday breakfast on some treat days would be "Gupta kaka's bread" which was a term coined by my family i guess. My parents would start preparing it long before my sister and me woke up and then we all would sit at the table and enjoy it and my dad would in the end polish off the remaining milk and sugars bits ! Such awesome days they would be. I miss the "pehelam pyara", "doodh mogra" and the "kachan keeda" rituals with my dad after every single meal.
We would often take holidays or simply go out on weekends with our family friends. So much fun it used to be and such a learning experience it used to be. Running around on the beaches or climbing up trees, balancing on water pipes and what not monkey acts that we all did on these trips !
Now every thing has to be planned, availability has to be seen and even then most of the time there is someone who is not free. The simple pleasures of life seem to have long disappeared and now what remains is just us human beings. No more shopping on fashion street is it, now i mostly walk into air conditioned malls and buy whatever i want. Eating a cadbury is no longer a great deal, as i just walk across to the store and buy it as and when i feel. It is no longer something special for me and i really feel bad about all these childhood joys that i have left behind in the last few years. I don't know how and when i changed, but it did happen and i became one of the snooty people i used to see. Where i like to have expensive and branded stuff too and i prefer a day spent in a mall rather than walking and haggling with vendors on a street. I hope this realization will change my mind and take me at least a little into my past life. I hope to make me a simple person again, with small joys and shining eyes and all the excitement.