When the narrator was young, they spent most of their time from ages 0-4 with their grandparents and great-grandparents, who had a large influence on them. Each morning, their great-grandparents would wake up and light a fire in the kitchen before allowing the narrator to enter, for fear they would catch a cold. They were then taught the importance of washing their face before entering the kitchen. The narrator and their grandmother would work together extracting butter from curd by mixing and pulling ropes, which the narrator found interesting to help with. While they did this, their grandfather would milk the buffalo and care for its young in the shed.
When the narrator was young, they spent most of their time from ages 0-4 with their grandparents and great-grandparents, who had a large influence on them. Each morning, their great-grandparents would wake up and light a fire in the kitchen before allowing the narrator to enter, for fear they would catch a cold. They were then taught the importance of washing their face before entering the kitchen. The narrator and their grandmother would work together extracting butter from curd by mixing and pulling ropes, which the narrator found interesting to help with. While they did this, their grandfather would milk the buffalo and care for its young in the shed.
When the narrator was young, they spent most of their time from ages 0-4 with their grandparents and great-grandparents, who had a large influence on them. Each morning, their great-grandparents would wake up and light a fire in the kitchen before allowing the narrator to enter, for fear they would catch a cold. They were then taught the importance of washing their face before entering the kitchen. The narrator and their grandmother would work together extracting butter from curd by mixing and pulling ropes, which the narrator found interesting to help with. While they did this, their grandfather would milk the buffalo and care for its young in the shed.
When I was born, I have no idea about the outside world.
I was so new to the environment like
everyone else. From the birth to age of 4, as far as I remember I had spent most of the time with my grandparents and great grandparents. As we everyone know we had a large influence of our environment for gathering information and making and shaping the perception of thinking about the environment in which we live. I was with my grandparents in maternal house almost all my holidays and I was really close with them. Like every other day, I woke up 15 minutes later than my great grandparents woke up. My great grandparents never allow me to woke up together with them as they always used to mention,” come after you can smell the smoke of fire from the kitchen, don’t come before otherwise you will catch cold. I will go inside the kitchen to lit the fire and when the fire is ready you can come”. While the great grandfather used to go to the shed to look after the domestic animals which he treats with so much care. I will tell you why later in the story but for now lets go to the kitchen. As soon as I smell the smoke from the kitchen, I get up and try to enter the kitchen where great grandmother is making things ready to extract the butter from the curd. There is no permission to enter in the kitchen without cleansing the face. As there is shivering cold outside, I always use to try to sneak in the kitchen without washing face but no for a single time I had succeeded. Never at once. There are 2 reasons behind it. the first thing now I can understand that is anyone can tell whether a child had washed his face or not when he wake up and another reason is that they taught me that If I lie about anything the demons will take to the hell and sometimes they used to said,” if I ever lie and God see me lying, the God will be angry and rip off my ears from my head.. “. They taught me only bad people lie and I never want to be a bad people so when my grand maaa used to ask me had I washed my face even though she can tell I had washed my face or not by just looking at me. as I know lying is a bad thing, so I tell her I had not washed my face with a smiling face then she used to give me a jar of lukewarm water to wash my face after that I enter the kitchen. Then we start our next duty of extracting the butter. Grand maa fill the madani 2/3rd with mixture of curd and Lukewarm water and start to mix the whole system. I then go close to grand maa that I want to do the work like her because it looks so interesting from me, pulling the rope turn by turn with both hands to move the axel which initiates the separation of butter from the mixture. Most of the time she uses to refuse it as with my little hand I will slow down the whole process which makes it difficult for her to separate the butter more but she used to let me do it when I keep requesting her. she grabs my hand with which I was holding the rope and helps me to do it. while we are preparing the butter my grand paa went to the shed to milk the buffalo. He cooks the food and hot water with salt for buffalo and his baby. This helps to keep the buffalo healthy