Childhood happiness

curiouser and curiouser...
That's the most famous phrase found in Alice in Wonderland. Obviously everyone knows about the show by now. Mad Hatter played by Johnny Depp and all that. I was reading the article in the Variety about the book and show. A line in it caught my attention and it got me thinking. Alice had gone to Wonderland before, in the book Alice through the looking glass. But, now that she's 19, she doesn't remember a single thing about her trip, I'm not sure she forgot about it right after, or as she grew older.

It makes me wonder, how could she forget and experience as wonderful as that? Is it because the mind closes as you grow older? And that leads to the topic I'm talking about. Frankly, I'm jealous of children. They have these wonderful minds that can absorb anything like a sponge, and they have the ability to look at something, believe in it and adapt to a situation. Sadly, this changes as one grows older. Look at Alice, when she was in Wonderland before, she did not question anything, like what an adult would do. She took it in her stride and coped with it. That's what children do, they BELIEVE.

For instance, if a child sees a fairy, they believed. If an ADULT saw one, they would most probably dismiss it as a butterfly, or an optical illusion. Do you see the difference? The child's mind and an adult's. When does a child grows up and stop believing? Is it when they see something? Go through something? Suffer a breakup? When they get betrayed?

Some would say, growing up is good. It trains you. I'm don't dispute with that. But, children should be allowed to stay as a child for as long as they should. For example, you don't ask a child to become the man of the house at 5!! In my opinion, human beings get disillusioned with life too young. They grow up too fast. Children are better than adults in the sense that they are open- minded, compared to adults who are narrow- minded and who refuses to accept something as reality even when it is nothing but the truth.

But, no matter how hard we try to fight against it, it is futile. We have to grow up. We have to stop believing, simply because of social stigma or conception or society views. Life's like that. Whether you want it or not, you HAVE to do it, because there's no one else. Just like Harry Potter, Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist...... What do you think?

However, staying as a child forever is not something you want either. Like Peter Pan. That's the problem with humans. Their wants can never end. They always want multiple things at one time. That's true for even when you're eating. Let's face it, you wouldn't just want to eat rice, right?