Genre: Memoir
Have you ever played a street game in your childhood? Playing under the heat
of sun with your best buddies across the
streets, running, jumping, rolling and hiding all day, on a time that computer
games was not yet familiar to play of every
children?
I miss being a child. That you’ll
have to sleep every afternoon or else you’ll get hit with a belt by your mother
or father, and after you sleep you can go out again and play with your friends.
It was a very memorable experience that I have played almost all of the street
games or “larong kalye” when I was young. Those memories are irreplaceable and
so fun to think back.
But, there’s also a moment that you’ll
have your enemies because of some little thing about the rules of the game that
you’re playing, like for being a “burot”. That you’re always that kid who is
always tagged. But, of course, after a day or two, you’ll get friends again. That
in the middle of your game your brother or sister will call your name to eat
your lunch or something and you don’t want to follow.
But in this new generation, the kid’s
right now we’re stuck in front of the computer, tablets or phone playing computer
games. Even though there still some places that “larong kalye” or street games
was still being played. It’s sad that only few of street games were being
played nowadays.
But it makes me smile when I see
some children playing it. It reminds me of being a child. A childhood that only
experienced by “batang 90’s”.
