Childhood V/s Today....Childhood Wins 1-0 ;)

Childhood days........Gone are the days and I wont be enjoying it any more at least in this life time of mine.I might live and experience it in my future with my son's or daughter's growing up years. Childhood....It reminds me of days when I was'nt aware of the meaning of these terms : - stress, responsibilities, expectations, no worries to prove myself to the world that Yes -  I exist.Childhood... I still remember the days when I used to make paper boats during rainy days and had rainy days in school contrary to now no matter what after wearing my rain coat and speeding to the office as the client deliverables and deadlines might get effected which may in turn effect my annual appraisal and career growth(I have grown up so as my thoughts).Childhood....yes how can I forgot those days when I used to fight with my younger sister on issues which seemed no less than Indo Pak war those days but now seems to be meaningless, but not denying the fact that I surely miss those fights even this would be the point on which my sister would agree to even now.Contrary to which fighting with the management these days via frequent emails these days to prove our worth or n rounds of negotiations with HR managers of different companies post recession.Childhood...school friends; remember those days when we used to spend more time playing rather than studying no matter how sincere and deep thoughts were transferred into our young minds by our parents to concentrate on study rather than friends circle/cable TV/movies.These days when I sit and think back competing with my friends in board exams was far much better rather than handling office politics along with my colleagues. Pocket money is now converted into salary/variable components (when I would would get the 100% is still a dream day for me)/appraisals.Gone are the childhood days when i used to spend time and enjoy with friends.These days I get to know about my friends' birthdays, anniversaries, their newly born kids, their organization switch and on site visits only when I login to the social networking websites or read their status messages on G talk ;).
Finally I would like to summarize by the only song which comes to my mind I can remember in my life time based on childhood :"Bhale cheen lo mujh se meri jawaani; magar mujh ko lauta do bachpan ka saawan woh kaagaj ki kashti woh baarish ka paani"....  thanks to Jagjit Singh, the singer of this song to make us all realise the importance of our childhood days.