Being a Child Once Again
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.”
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
One thing that I’ve learned from reading the Little Prince is that grown-ups have forgot how is it to be a child. Ironically, you’ll hear some grown-ups saying “How I wish I’m still a kid… bla bla.” But who doesn’t like that? Well, except for those people out there that were bullied and were teased by their classmates who are pa-sosyal1, I’m absolutely sure that they don’t want to go back or even just remember their childhood days.
To be a kid is to be carefree, not sensitive, always asks questions about random things, and other things that I’ve forgot. Yes, I admit, I’m growing up — in less than two years, I’ll be officially a young adult — and my childhood memories and the feeling of how to be a kid are starting to ebb away. One reason why I can say this is that sometimes I find my self agitated because of my younger brother.
Why do we unlearn these things when they are not supposed to be unlearned? All of the grown-ups have experienced how does to be a child, a child who is curious with all the things that he or she sees. It is not necessary that one should act a child in his or her late forties, what I mean is that we should understand why kids act like this and that that we always label as stupid. Hey, haven’t you did that stupid act back in seventh grade? Haven’t you also abused your ugliest classmate by calling him names? Haven’t you hid from your mother after eating half of the contents of your refrigerator because you were afraid to be spanked? Haven’t you cheated when you were playing with your childhood friends?
Now, let’s have a look once again to the remaining childhood memories that we have while we can still. And relish to the world that we understand the stupid acts that the children do.
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On other news, I’m glad that I was able to memorize the frog’s muscles in time. Sure, there were some items that I don’t know the answer to because it was a move test. I forgot where the vastus internus and vastus internus are located, if it was in the dorsal or ventral part of the frog. Tomorrow, we’ll have another test, this time in Zoology (lecture) about the circulatory system. I did not listen to my instructor (who does?). I’m glad that I have a copy of all the things that were discussed last Monday and yesterday. All of the things that I need to memorize are there.
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