Monday, May 15, 2006
Children
The process of transformation from a child to an adult is called growing up. Being grown up, among other things, entails the lost of a childhood innocence. What is childhood innocence? It is the ability to place trust in your surroundings and the people around you, that all is good despite so many obvious flaws, and that all are true to you. Graduation from your schooling days to the working society, the reality of a practical world sinks in. Going along with the flow of being practical, there is this stark realisation that that childlike trust placed has ebbed away. Dreams die. Dreams not of goals and aims in career achievements, but those of a child, running freely across a green grass field, with no trace of worry. That child with her hair flowing behind her dies, and fades away. One day, you will look at a child in reality, and wonder, how could I ever have been like that before? That thought of being so carefree brings disapproval. Such is the power of growing up.Just a few years back, everytime I read newspaper articles about taking time off to relax and 'smell the roses', I would wonder: why, does it take such a load of effort to stop and smell the roses, to appreciate the beauty and wonders of nature? For, to me, that was easy as breathing. Yet, as years pass, as the harsh reality of this world drills in, there is less time, less opportunities, and less of a mood to do so. Finally, I understand why people, working adults in particular, have to make a conscious effort to 'smell the roses'.They left that child behind.
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