"Aaj Chhutti hai?"( Today is a holiday??!!)
- the words of a small child to another child, which I heard yesterday, as I was walking past them.

The innocence was spilling out of those words. In the past three weeks, we, as people have suddenly matured. Life is many ways makes us capable of living by giving us lessons, and in the past weeks we've been learning those lessons, and growing up. But, the words of this unknown child, just made me realise that there is still innocence left in this world. Innocence , whose border is made by the walls of the school and the home it lives in; outside of which is a world which does not affect it, however much it tries. The words made me smile to myself. Not just because of the essence of the sheer joy they reflected, but also because they brought back memories of my own school days, when I too, lived by this philosophy. An unexpected holiday was the best gift your school could offer, and you took it with both hands and used it to its full capacity. Things change so much, and it is ususally a few words which really make you realise that.
We, as people of the world, are so busy with trying to live on in the world, that we forget what it really is to LIVE life; we forget what we were in school, living life to fullest, enjoying every moment of it. Life to us is just about going to work every day, trying to get on in the world, not really asking ourselves what it is that we WANT from the world or from our lives. A child is so care-free. A child does not care what happens around him in the world, simply because he looks at the world through rose-tinted glasses and feels excited about its beauty, its reality and more importantly about the world itself as a whole. he feels that excitement to live on in the world, to reach where we are currently, to do what we do now, simply because he doesn't know that he will change, and look bac at his childhood and say, " Wish I could go back!"