Half a dozen girls got together in the afternoon of a Sunday. The oldest of all was probably of 12 years. And there was this hint of self-awareness into her searching eyes.
It has been a hot day overall, and the girls were catching a breath under the cooler shades of the spring tree in the courtyard after a healthy dose of a ball game. It was time to switch to verbal games now, I assumed, and from the verandah of the first level of my place I just gave them a call.
Most of the gilrs had their name starting with P, and so they chose letter P and started recounting as many words as they could starting with P. Below is an unprompted list of how 10-12 year old girls see their world, and life, in "P"
Perspiring
Perspiring
Pleasure
Purpose
Practicality
Peace
Perseverance
Practice
Preaching
Personality
Personal
Professional
Pleasant
Present
Piece
Pregnancy
Precious
Pressure
Pragmatic
Prejudice
Perfection
Propagation
Progeny
Pampering
Pretending
Parenting
Plastics
Protecting
Periods
Prose
Presents
Preparations
Past
Puberty
Progress
Power
Physics
Pandora
Pistol
Piano
Planet
Precise
Ploy
Pause
Pass
Posture
Prime
Politics
Praise
Press
Plot
Purpose
Practicality
Peace
Perseverance
Practice
Preaching
Personality
Personal
Professional
Pleasant
Present
Piece
Pregnancy
Precious
Pressure
Pragmatic
Prejudice
Perfection
Propagation
Progeny
Pampering
Pretending
Parenting
Plastics
Protecting
Periods
Prose
Presents
Preparations
Past
Puberty
Progress
Power
Physics
Pandora
Pistol
Piano
Planet
Precise
Ploy
Pause
Pass
Posture
Prime
Politics
Praise
Press
Plot