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Childhood and young age
Children seem impatient to grow up while old people wish they were young again. Each age brings with it pleasures and pains. One must learn to make the best of each age and enjoy the present rather than think about the past or dream about the future. Childhood is blessed as one gets tons of love and affection. Children are pampered.
In childhood, the child is bound by rules and regulations made by the elders. He is constantly told not to do certain things. A child is not free to make his own decisions. Young age brings with it not only freedom and self-dependence but the burden of responsibilities also. He is responsible for his actions and decisions. In order to be successful in life, he has to work hard and keep himself out of troubles.