Save the Child
A few months ago I came accross a definition of an "adult" as the "child that did not survive". It struck a cord with me and although cynical i saw the truth in it. The thought grew on me and i began to ponder on all the warm and wonderful attributes that we were born with but lost with the advent of time under the auspices of growing up. And the fearful fact is that every passing generation is losing the inner child earlier and earlier in life. Call it technology, call it lack of time or call it societal pressure; i see an army of beings that look like children but inside them is a mind, a brain and an emotional makeover that functions more akin to adults. When the clock struck mid night and another year came to a close; the familiar calling of the inner self to make the next year more meaningful helped me joined the dots. Would it not be nice to to retrace the steps of my own development in search of the child that i lost at the expense of the adult that i became....