I read a forward that had notes for God from little kids. There was this one that said -
"Dear God,
Today in school, we read that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb...but we were told in Sunday School at church, that you made light. I think he stole your idea!
Sincerely,
XXX."
It took me back to my childhood. I was, an irritatingly inquisitive child from what I remember and what my parents tell me. Something happened though that made me stop asking questions as often...well, up until recently. Now, I seem to be questioning everything and the funny thing is, it's the questions I had asked then, that had been satisfactorily answered, that I seem to be raising again!
Anyways, thinking about my childhood, made me wonder about the kid who'd written the note. He's been satisfied by a very convincing answer hasn't he? He'll never wonder about how light came about anymore.
I am saddened by the fact that we consider kids to be incapable of handling complex reasoning skills and quash their questions with such satisfying ease! I wish we'd be a little more patient and respectful of the little critters. Maybe we'd have more intelligence that ways...
6 comments:
nice one!!and i quite agree with what u said...somewhere v do stop kids from thinking when they actually can. :)
:)
Very cute read.
~TyRo~
Couldn't agree more on this...
Nice post.:)
Haha... I had the same habit.. I would keep on asking.. I think we lost that habit somewhere during school; when we were busy parroting.
@Ria:> Yup!
@Cutey:> :)
@Tyro:> Thank you! But cute??? Damn...I was hoping it'd be associated with adjectives like 'intellectually stimulating' Ah well, back to the drawing board!
@Sneha:> :)
@Kriti:> I was never busy parroting...could never get myself to even try it! I just shut up when people seemed to hold illogical answers and the books seemed to mundane to keep up with my inquisitivity. I opted for purity of thought and cut-off all pointless dealings with lesser mortals.
:P
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