Thursday 19 February 2009

Children

Went for quite an awesome night's out with the dYb ppl just now. Had a awesome coffee which kinda explains why am i here typing at 2 a.m. in camp when i should be sleeping. Caffeine. Always works.

And talking to people always kinda provide cannon fodder for well, my blog. Like it kinda triggers my thinking, which isn't exactly straight right now due to the dangerous duel of Exhaustion and Caffeine. Like flashes of 'untiredness' mixed with periods of true fatigue. Kinda funny feeling. Like my head's telling me to sleep but the whole of my body 'begs to differ'.

But anyway. They were talking about children, and teaching them, and the questions they ask, something which i may get a chance to do real soon. hopefully. But yes, questions like "why's the sky blue?" or "what is the rabbit doing at the seashore?", show us not the cluelessness or lack of focus of the children, but of our own lack of perception as we grow older. Like a child seeing an apple fall will ask the famous Newtonian question of "why is the apple falling downwards", while we as adults will think of "Is that apple dented? Is it still edible?" or a physicists will simple quote "The laws of gravity" or "Newton's first law" or similar. Children show us what's really important, things beyond our clouded eyes. As explained in the first chapter of 'The little prince' which is kinda a fun read now i'm reading it the second or third time.

And as a sidenote.

"Hey. Hey. I wanna be a rockstar."
Make that happen.

Till nxt time.

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