We can learn a LOT from children. Is this because they’re smarter than we are? Perhaps they’re more knowledgeable? Of course not!
So then, why IS it that a child of age 3 can teach a person of 50 so many things?
Quite simply, it’s because children are HONEST. A child looks at the world and asks honest questions about it. “Adults” are often embarrassed by a child’s questions because much of the “adult world” is founded upon pretension.
A healthy child is genuine; guileless.
Most people, it seems, “outgrow” their child-like ways and become hardened, opinionated, or even cynical. Once this happens, they stop questioning the world around them and begin to try to make everything fit into their own narrow view.
Then a child comes along and says something like “The Emperor isn’t wearing any clothes!” and suddenly, we’re embarrassed. And we’ve learned something.
I’ve never “grown up” in the conventional sense. Although I tried very hard (and failed) for about 20 years to become a member of the “adult community” I could never refrain from being brutally honest which, quite frankly, is rarely welcome in “polite company.”
Although such honesty has limited the number of friends I’ve acquired, it has also enabled me to come to the realization that EVERYTHING that exists comes from the same physical source, and that you and I are truly “One” with everyone and everything.
I’ll take that over superficial companionship any day.
My purpose with this site is to attract other child-like, intellectually honest people so we can share the different things we have discovered during our lives.
“Show me yours, and I’ll show you mine!”
Wayne L. Parker
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of me. I can very confidently announce one or another law, which throws itself into
relief and form, but I am too young yet by some ages to compile a code.
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