Who we become.
Author: Me
From: Here, Other
Age: 0
Date: 13th Feb 2003, 6:48 AM
Rating: 5
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Title: Who we become.
Have you ever noticed that the more you know, the more you are educated, the less you actually do anything? A child will go outside and play in the mud, searching diligently for fossils of dinosaurs. He may continue to search for these fossils for days. One day in the life of a child is equivalent to at least two years in the life of an adult. Therefore, if this child spends three days looking for something he will most likely not find, he has just wasted six years. Or has he? Is what we adults consider a waste a waste to the child? For us, stuffing an old aluminum pie pan full of mud is a waste of time, but for that child, it is a delicious pie, fit to be eaten by royalty. I have begun to believe that man does not evolve as he grows older but rather to un-evolve. If pleasure is the central point of our lives, and you know it is, then the fact that children can obtain such magnitudes of joy from such simple pleasures and wading in the rain should clue us in as a society to the degenerate nature of our lifestyles. However, we, the educated adults, must do exactly as everyone before us has done, wiping away all trace evidence of that child inside of us. We ridicule those we perceive as acting like children, then loudly praise their innovative accomplishments. Why do we act so verily odd? We have no choice. All of our life, we have been programmed to do exactly as we are doing. Since childhood, those blissful years of free thought and invention, we have known the end was coming; we have understood we would age and fight like hell to sustain our individuality while pretending we were adapting, becoming assimilated into society. Children are the real learners of the world; we are only observers.
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