Summers then and now....

It's mid summer already and i can sense the heat well enough,the sun is shinning brighter than ever it does all year round and it seems it's in no mood to get clouded soon.Read in the newspapers few days back-Monsoon would enter India around 31st may from kerala,this year,that makes me get calculative that monsoons should knock "amchi mumbai" shores around june second week....and that does get me a faint smile like any other monsoon lover which faints instantly as i recall there are still sunny days to go of sweating and dehydrating one's self.For many in mumbai the summer loose their worth and meaning as soon as one is out of schools and guess that's same with the rest of India even.The school vacations,the long hours of play, play and sheer play,the love with mangoes (especially the raw ones),lemon juices,jal jeera drinks ....must have stayed a part of every child's life.Summers used to mean so much fun in your early childhood days and as one moves away from the childhood span the fun faints and faints a little more.Just of lately saw few little kids playing in a building's garden and that makes me go nostalgic about the days we had fun playing all day,sweating mad and bad and still wanting for more....it's weird,we sweated even then in summers...we sweat even now in summers....but those sweats were out of the fun had under the sun on the grounds all day....they never mattered or bothered and these ones .... are out of the struggle of commuting for work , that matters and indeed bothers a lot...gone are those days and so are those summers...a little envious of the little kids for whom summers should not end.....