How daring one can be at the age of three ?

       How daring one can be at three ?

Naughty Naughty Me :-)

Exactly as the heading says , how daring can one be at an age of three  ? As I`ve already mentioned in my blogs I have been very naughty ,mischievous and stubborn all through my childhood . My analysis for my behavior will be done in some other blog . 

Before I start narrating the incident ,I would like to give a picture of my school . My school was an old Christian school , which was located on the main road . It was a junction where  three other roads meet. It had a main gate near the junction and one side gate .From my home if you go straight right , first you`ll cross a junction again you`ll have to go straight and on the left side of the road just before another junction  was my school.

As it happens , I was put in a nursery school near by our house ,at the age of  three . As my parents were working , I was taken to school by them and later I come back home in the evening  by the school van. Well maybe I was not very  happy with all those happenings in my life , maybe I had better options at home rather than in school , maybe I was not comfortable with the teachers and  friends there .

Whatever the reason maybe , one  such day  as always my parents dropped me at school with a bag containing nothing other than a small book , some biscuits and my lunch  . By afternoon , I got so bored of all .So the little devil mind  of mine started working ...after having my lunch , I went to wash my hands ( the wash area was near the small gate ). I took my bag and went to wash my hands , thanks to my lucky stars ....the small gate was open a bit .

I looked here and there ,there was no ayah in sight ,nor any teachers . I slowly got out of the gate and started walking towards my home . I,  a child of 3 years , a liliput ,must have caught lots of attention .As i walked a bit two boys came to me and asked where I was going .I said that I was going home .I don't know what else they asked ,but then they told me that they`ll accompany me and I promised them that I`ll show them my home . And I  showed the way to my home , crossing the junctions and they came with me till my home and left me with my maid and left .

As  this happened  forty two years back ,when there was no phone connection or any other means of communication ,my poor maid waited till my parents came back from work . They must have talked , discussed and worried a lot about me ,thinking of the consequences of my act . But I was happy myself , as I got a whole afternoon to be at home . And I noticed that no one was questioning me , scolding me ,so I quite happy .

I think I  got a great impression about myself . The next day ,I was again taken to school .I had all  plans set up in my mind .As planned after having my lunch ,I went to wash my hands ....Good God !!! I couldn't believe my eyes !!!  There ......the door was open again !!    How could I miss  one more such a golden chance .And I looked here and there .......Yes :-)  there was nobody there watching me ....slowly and started to move out ..........Hey Hey What is this ?  Suddenly I felt some one stopping me ,I turned back to see the ayah standing there and also some of the teachers :-( 

Caught red Handed :-(

I don't remember what their expressions were . I have no clue whether they scolded me or warned me or made me understand the danger in doing so. But after that day never did I attempt to cross the rules , never tried to run away from the school .

Sadly enough ,  from that day on wards that gate was always closed , not a single time was it opened  .And as years rolled by , the school got renovated , new structures came up and  to add to all the changes , they removed that gate too and built a wall . Now that school has only one gate that is the main gate !!!

I still don't know what made me do such an act ? I don't know why i was not punished or beaten up ? I don't know why I never dared to do it again? I still wonder what was that ,that made me do it  , and what was that , that made me stop it ???

If such an incident had happened these days :Then with all the crossroads  and heavy traffic I would never have survived .The boys  who had helped me could have done anything to me and my parents . Anything could have happened .

As a parent ,what would have  done if one of my kids had done the same ? Would I have handled it  the same sensible way as my parents did ? Would any parent reacted to such a situation the same way ??

Our country has changed a lot and so have the people and their minds .I`m sure that in this present society a  running away of a three year old would have been different scene  and so would have been the consequences . The entire scenario would have been another !!!