To think like a child.

Apr 17, 2005 22:30

I just watched 'finding neverland' and i sincerely don't want to grow up. I don't mind getting older, i look forward to being older, but i don't want to become boring. I want to play the games we used to, eat imaginary food, sneak up on witch's houses, try to avoid the carpet covered in lava. I remember crawling through muddy swamps in the ( Read more... )

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rev_odin April 18 2005, 04:40:10 UTC
People forget growing old doesn't mean you have to grow up....and well said!

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rainbowjingles April 18 2005, 04:47:09 UTC
I don't think you have to worry about growing up =)
I love you, and am incredibly jealous of your eloquency right now.

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ncalrod April 18 2005, 05:04:08 UTC
I agree with you 100%

I think that what "they" want is for the child in all of us to die and be replaced by an automaton that works, buys and consumes, pays taxes and obeys all the rules. Like a cog in the machine, they want us numb to the world and all its wonders because if more people saw the world in all its wonder as a child, then they might resist the efforts to makes us less than what we are. To turn a unique human into a clock work cog that sits in a cubical all day earning money that they then spend on what advertising tells them to. To live and die a numb existence as nothing more than a expendable resource to some faceless company. If we could see the world in all its wonder as with the eyes of a child we would not so easily manipulated.

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