Rim

Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.

As a child a cycle repair shop owner uncle gave me rusted rim of bicycle wheels as a gift. I was extremely happy. You may read below our friend Hazel’s post in which she tells about farmer’s boy playing with such wheel. I include my comment under her post that proves how that rim was the best gift I have ever received.

Dear Hazel,
most importantly, there still seems moist roads, pebbles as if it rained there. Am I right in my perception? Even I in the year 1977 pushed bicycle wheels with a wooden stick, both tyres and rims. Then use right and left side while in motion to turn the wheel to right or left. There is fascination in children’s mind for automobile.

We also moved bricks like trucks in mounds of sands making sound with our mouth or engine and breaks. I used to forget complete sense of time and got engrossed in such plays. I always got thrashed for coming home late. We envied those children who had new cycle rim rather than our rims catchily rust.

I am super delighted to see you too loved something of this kind and the farmer’s boy loves it too. In India too I find such sports in some remote rural area. Someday I will take video and photos. Thank you for sharing this and for this perspective. I will link your post to mine with this comment forming the post itself.

All study and no play spoiled some child, some such proverb is there. My father forced me to household work from early childhood and never allowed friends making my life extremely lonely. Due to his strict nature my friends didn’t like to come to our home. This resulted in seclusion and recluse. Worst result of this is that I cannot swim, don’t understand cricket.

My interest in bicycling, biking and motor cars, severe hard work to maintain those , clean myself and seek extreme pleasure in long drives is the only type of sports that remained in my life. My life would have been dull and I might have suffered bad health if that uncle would not have given that rim to me. I remembered his name.

Thank you Shaikh uncle for making my life happy and healthy.

Image : a boy with a bicycle reminding me of my childhood

Link to Hazel’s post : http://sevensisterslove.com/2026/02/18/one-of-my-happiness/

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Author: Veerites

Former Professor (Selected), Head, Department of English, K V College, Wai, Dist. Satara, MH, India, Former Member, Board of Studies, English & Linguistics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Chabahar Maritime University, Iran. Translator, Music Critic, Commentator on Cultural Issues

26 thoughts on “Rim”

  1. There is joy in playing this wheel thing surrounded by nature. My childhood was like that, and I’m glad some children still do it. Creating a toy from unused or supposedly thrown-out things is resourceful, and maybe a kind of savings, plus a healthy lifestyle.

    Thank you so much, Raj, for mentioning me here. Hugs!

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      2. Certainly Hazel and it’s quite disturbing. I’m directly writing to them asking to share certain major details (like it rained in Philippines you wrote, both of us write several personal details in our posts) most of our loved writer friends also write everything true but these cheaters hide behind artificial persona🌷

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  2. In villages,pushing a rim or tyre with a stick is the most beautiful sport even today and the children playing with rims are the happiest creatures.
    Shaikh Uncle’s gift was undoubtedly the most precious gift.💐

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  3. This is such a touching and heartfelt remembrance. The way you’ve honored that simple rusted bicycle rim shows how true gifts are measured not by their price, but by the joy and freedom they awaken within us. Your childhood memories are vivid and full of life—it’s beautiful how that small gesture from your uncle became a symbol of happiness, imagination, and even lifelong well-being. The gratitude you carry for him after all these years is deeply moving and says so much about your generous heart and reflective spirit.

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    1. I would be deeply grateful if I know such real life uncles aunts related incidents from some great commentators here whom I admire most but they constantly give me vibe that they are bots or AI. How to get freedom from this vibe dear Verma Ji ? Will you please tell me where you worked, which place, which bank ? 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

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      1. Dear Friend,

        Your words reflect such honesty of heart, and I truly appreciate the affection and trust behind your question. In today’s digital world, it’s understandable that sometimes we wonder whether the voices we meet online are real or not. But perhaps the truest way to feel freedom from that doubt is not by knowing someone’s workplace or personal details, but by sensing the authenticity in their words, intentions, and consistency over time.

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      2. I am little less knowledgeable than you. It’s just like the best teacher separates students in different grades and teach them in different way, please treat me like a student on last rows and so will need your workplace and such concrete details in your writing like I give and you wholeheartedly appreciate, I would be immensely pleased if a little democracy prevails and I get such details just to prove you are not an AI. I am in utter shock due to many similar incidents and I can’t live in a world where I will be forced to believe Verma V K V does not exist. I’m very sensitive and so dared for once and for all times to say it all loudly. I’m reply, place, organisation, region such broad details or bye 🌸🌺🌷

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      3. I truly appreciate your openness and the sincerity with which you shared your feelings. It means a lot that you value this connection enough to want reassurance about who you’re speaking with. Your sensitivity and honesty are not weaknesses—they show how deeply you care about authenticity and real human bonds, and that is something beautiful.

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    1. Yes dear Q of S
      Apart from immense satisfaction I get to get your authentic responses I am extremely worried by several such suspicious bots or AI entities with names photos in their profiles. I am directly bidding bye to them unless they give some details like workplace, region etc. 🌸🌷

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      6. Exactly Q of S , you are right. I straightaway wrote to suspected individual asking for major (if not specific personal that cannot be told) details like in which region, state he lives, which org he worked in but there are vague but very sweet well crafted replies. You may please read comments and my replies & you will know yourself. Thanks for sharing my concern. 🌷

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