Babies And Young Children

[Frogfucius]

I'm starting to really appreciate babies and very young children. Not that I ever disliked them, but now I realize the soft pureness of a young human child. They don't fully identify with their minds or body. They haven't quite been fully taught yet to identify with their culture and society. Their experiences haven't yet shaped them to be cynical, like almost every adult. They're excited to be alive, and just enjoy the blissfulness of life. Every new experience feels magical and wonderful, just like how life should feel like.

Children are amazing. I enjoyed being a child, and I'd love to recapture that magical wonder of being alive. Life isn't serious and does not need to be so hostile. We don't need to make so many damn problems for ourselves. Not every phenomena needs to be explained and understood. Not every experience needs to be mundane and unfulfilling.

[Prabhaker]

@Frogfucius

The child has to get lost into the world to become a child again. The innocence has to go into all the turmoil of cunningness and calculation to become really innocent again. A child is innocent, but his innocence is that of ignorance. A saint is also innocent, but his innocence is not of ignorance but of experience, of ripeness, of maturity. He is again innocent, but that again has great importance – he cannot be distracted from his innocence anymore.

The child is bound to get distracted.