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Published: 06 Aug 2018 โ€บ Updated: 06 Aug 2018Life

Life

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It's a story of memories which I think everyone would have it

I grew up in Bandra, Mumbai better known as the Queen of the suburbs ๐Ÿ˜†
During a time when everyone treated each other like Family,
Every female/male that came to your house was your aunty/uncle even if they were no relation ๐Ÿ‘ซ
We went to summer club and played throw ball and carrom, hockey, soccer, basketball, etc.
We came straight home from school and changed and then out to play all evening .
If you had siblings you wore their hand me downs
We didn't eat fast food๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”....
We sometimes ate bhel puri and dosas from street carts and got ice slushies or Gola from a cart down the road if ya mum was not looking.
Otherwise Home made kalakhatta/ rasna.
We played cricket or rounders if we ran out of space ๐Ÿ
Robbers or thieves
Football ๐Ÿ ,
Hide and Seek๐Ÿ™ˆ,
Kabaddi , Gili danda and knock door run ๐Ÿ๐Ÿƒ
Kiti Kiti gotya,many would remember this game jumping over the backs
7 bricks
Hockey ๐Ÿ’
There was no bottled water๐Ÿถ, we would share the same bottle after giving it a wipe with our mucky sleeves,
We had no kids tv channels In fact we had no ๐Ÿ“บ .
Rode our hired bikes ๐Ÿšฒ for hours ๐Ÿ•ฐ yes we could hire bikes by the hour or half day or full day . There was no such thing as a mobile phone or any other electronic device or in fact even a telephone ๐Ÿ“ต.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. Your friends always had Your back . and if someone had a fight, that's what it was...a fist fight๐Ÿ‘Š.
Kids didn't have guns๐Ÿ”ซ or knives๐Ÿ”ช.
The street lights ๐Ÿ’กwere always your curfew or until your mum shouted out the window.
School was mandatory, but we loved the monsoons when it flooded and we could not go to school and spent hours playing in the rain making paper boats to sail them through the gutters โœ๐Ÿ“’ or catch guppies.
We watched our mouths around our elders๐Ÿ‘ด๐Ÿ‘ตbecause we knew we'd get a crack, belt or some shoe , slipper ๐Ÿ‘ž๐Ÿ‘ ... everybody listened to English songs on the the same radio station, so walking from home to school, youโ€™d hear the same song playing in most homes as you walked along . Saturday Date was popular with late nights drinking sitting over someoneโ€™s wall,sleepover at friends place n make prank calls overnight and pick of the Pops on Wednesday nights. , despite us moving to different parts of the globe, thanks to social media and face book ,we still keep in touch with childhood friends and as a community we share good and bad news and itโ€™s amazing that our Bandra community can still support each other . If you did something wrong your parents knew about it before you got home . I was lucky to grow up in a beautiful community .
Re-post if you're proud ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ˜ that you came from a close knit community ๐Ÿ‘ญ๐Ÿ‘ฌ๐Ÿ‘ซand you will never forget where you came from! .๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ˜‚

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