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Moral Lessons in Childhood
You are known by the company you keep
Childhood is clouded by a myriad of activities and episodes that stick to peoples' minds even long after the childhood is over into adulthood and even into the elderly times. Each person has several instances that they can recall and look back and feel embarrassed or a bit jilted at the thought that they actually underwent that.
One of the most significant lessons that I learnt in my childhood days was that I will, more often than not be judged according to the company that I keep. I grew up in the rural Texas farms and pretty much and my early childhood life was based in the farm like the other boys and attending the local schools within the neighborhood.
There was a group of boys in our kindergarten class who had formed a habit of sneaking out through the bores on the fence to unknown location during the break times only to reemerge with strange things like maize cobs, wheat, sunflower and potatoes. At that age, we al wondered where they could have gotten them from. Wherever they came from they...
This went on for weeks and it took place twice a week since the Monday supply could be used for till Wednesday then the Thursday supply would take us through the weekend.
The heroic sentiment that came with the supply was more lucrative than the supplies themselves. This was the luring point and the temptation to accompany the boys overcame the resistance not to and at the end of it I found myself in a Thursday entourage to the unknown land. First step was to sneak through the fence; I learnt that the destination was a farm located two hundred meters from the school. That was the source of the plunder. I felt guilty since I knew that they were not buying them and my dad had a farm.
As the group collected the supplies my conscious could not allow me to join the act since I had received quite a number of punishments from my dad for a simple mistake as stepping on the pumpkin leaves. The plunder took an estimated ten minutes and we were on our way back to school. We had to cross and open yard…
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