RAIN

What is the first thing which comes to your mind when you hear the word “childhood”?

If you are going to ask me, it would be “rain”.

Rain always reminds me of my childhood days. It is cool..refreshing..and fun.

A normal kid would sing “rain, rain, go away..come again another day..little children wants to play”..but for me, it is the other way because I would always want the rain to stay.. It brings happiness.. I use to play different kinds of outdoor games under the rain, playing games with my sisters and friends..Games such as touch-the-body, awtan, tumbang-preso , tagutaguan, step-palda, step-no and others. But the most wonderful thing I would always love to reminisce about those rainy days is when I am at home with the whole family with me and my other sisters playing indoor games like bahay-bahayan, teks, pogs, jackstone, and multo-multuhan or the takutan game underneath the kumot or kulambo where my elder sisters are going to scare us with their stories then we’ll run to our parents and will make us stop the game. And after that, we will eat noodles together.

For others, it may sound very ordinary but for someone who misses those things and for someone who only depends on childhood memories to be able to be happy, it would feel so nice to reminisce.