Come summer and you can’t help feeling a thrill in the air...it’s all around you! Those lovely mango blooms taking shape into little ripe mangoes and their aroma enchanting the air. The cuckoo sings it’s first ballad and then you try to compete with it…the April showers that calm the sweltering heat with an unforgettable earthy smell that lingers on thereafter...

I already see the soda walas , nimbu pani walas and of course the Ice golas and ice cream walas that are pedaling down the street,sounding a bell, and children flocking around them.

Aha! Reminds you of your childhood…

 Just the other day, an ice gola wala stopped in front of my house and I was very tempted to buy one   ice gola….those colourful icy juicy delights!...but I didn’t.

 I just stood there watching kids lick them with glee.

I also wanted to try the goli soda,the one with the marble stuck midway in the bottle. I always wondered how they fixed a marble in the soda bottle that way!

 But I denied myself that joy, because I chained the child in me. I kept thinking how I would push myself through the kids? What the adults around me would think seeing me lick the ice gola? What if it wasn’t hygienic? What if my teeth wear off with that soda? I used so much of my ‘brain’ that I felt more miserable! My heart longed for these simple pleasures.

Next time the ice golawala comes around, I SWEAR I will unleash the child in me…no inhibitions…I’ll buy all the rainbow colours of ice golas I can get....Wont deny myself of this joy!

 The joy of having an ice gola or nimbu pani ka soda is so much more fun than the icy treats in fancy joints....so don’t rob yourself of these little inexpensive pleasures this summer...

Nothing wrong in pampering the child in you...Treat yourself to some street icy delights and say ‘welcome summer’!

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