pudgy little fingers

[okokenikas]

When I've known an adult who is rude or mean or disgusting, or sad and damaged, or bitter, I try to remember that something got them to this point. Something about their life has changed them from a sweet little thing with pudgy little fingers, to this wholly unhappy adult

Comments

[zbg97]

Very true. I try to think in those terms, most of the time.

Did anything inspire this, or have you just been pondering?

[okokenikas]

Ive thought of it a lot at different times. Whenever I've seen pictures of kids who were in Indian Residential schools in this country, I thought of it. Even in the ones where they were told to give a nice group happy smile.

This latest time was when one of our mutual lj friends posted a picture of her and her brother, because if I remember the timeline correctly, something happened shortly after that picture that change things dramatically for them. Something good happened to save them from what could have been a bad situation, but it was still terrible.