The Stars That Usher Evening Rose

On Tuesday before I left school on my way back to my room after eating I had a flashback (I guess you would call it) to one of Michaels post that he made a couple days ago.

I had walked over to the elevator in our cafe at the school and there was a child (about 7 or 8 years old) and both his parents standing waiting for the elevator as well. Then the child looks up and points at me saying "Mommy, he scares me." His mother turns to him and tells him that I am not scary and that it is ok. But, when the kid said this I immediately thought back to Michaels post about him saying that there seemed to be several children who had acted as if they were afraid of him. Why this boy was scared of me I am not sure. Maybe it was actually me who scared him or maybe it was my shirt that scared him. I was wearing my Ozzfest 2003 shirt at the time and it has a demon type thing playing the guitar on the front of it, which to a child might be scary.

But that all got me thinking about when I was a kid and also about how my nephew, who turns 12 in a few days, and my niece, who is 7, act. I realized that kids really are more perceptive than adults are. William is getting to the age were he is not really that way anymore but Jacqueline is. Children are also much more open minded then adults are, whether that is because they are more willing to learn, because they don't know different, or for whatever reason. Children are more willing to try things and are a lot more likely to speak there mind which is actually very refreshing its a shame that more adults are not that way. I think that is part of the reason I enjoy kids so much is because they are a lot more fun to be around than adults are. Sure they can be annoying but it is still more fun than sitting around with adults talking about the news. Though Children being more perceptive and open minded is also a disadvantage for them as they can be more easily corrupted than an adult can, and what people became as an adult is mostly because of what they were taught when they were a child. Children are also more relaxed than adults. Most adults seem tense and stressed most of the time. But when you look at the whole picture adults are this way because it is the way that society has shaped the world. Which is unfortunate in my mind