Hi tom.
I'd actually go further, ---- not with the puff eating jack plot, but with
the innocence thing.
you talked about as an adult "learning that life is not so carefree as you
think when your a child", ---- well I would say one of the hardest, but most
valuable lessons to learn is that actually it is!
It requires a much more impennitrable atitude to various troubles, the
ability to be highly relaxed within the moment and not care about a lot of
various concerns such as what others think of you, but actually it is! just
as possible.
This isn't to say you should go back to the actually far nastier ways of
childhood that you might have unlearned, sinse childhood also can involve a
huge amount of cruelty and selfishness as well, in fact in one sense Puff
the magic dragon, peter pan and similar ideas have a very ideal and one
sided view of childhood that is far from true, sinse some children, ----
indeed some aspects of even the most decent children can be utter bastards!
There were things I did to other people as a child that I am certainly not
proud of and wouldn't do now.
So to finish this off, innocence I've begun to realize is a state
independent of age. Perhaps some children have it in some degree, perhaps
not, but it's a state that can only really be understood with life
experience.
I know that my view currently is very much based on the fact that my past
few years have been extremely difficult ones for various deeply personal
reasons which I absolutely will not discuss. While I'd not wish anyone to go
through that, i do hope I've learnt something.
All the best,
Dark.
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