Children of 90's

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”.