AN ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE CHILDHOOD
Being a child is:
Being like a feather,
which a bird has lost,
that rises in flight with the wind
and changes direction
as the wind moves.
It is falling and rising up
to fall again;
It's bursting into tears when you hurt yourself
it's blood, bruise, explosion,
crying and recovery.
It is to absorb through
the new senses,
hyper-perceptive of the passing life;
is to use for the first time a new human body,
in most cases healthy,
with few injuries and that grows, day by day.
It is to dream that everything is possible
take flight or climb walls,
and even walk head-down on the roofs.
It's a game;
It is being a pirate and sailing the open sea
in search of treasures and fantastic adventures;
is to be shipwrecked and run aground
on a desert island and learn to survive.
It is living in a hyper-reality,
where everything is possible.
It is learning something new every day.
It's listening to fantastic stories,
at night before going to sleep.
Is to receive
the food,
the shelter,
the clothes and
the education
from your parents and
your family and social environment.
It is embarking on kaleidoscopic fantasies
and allow the abstract until you have risen.
It's pure fun when summer comes,
and your parents allow you to play and explore
with your friends in the outside,
when the environment is safe.
It is living fully and without limits,
or with the limits that your parents
or your family and social environment,
implant on you.
It's watching cartoons and letting
reality park momentarily
in the illusions of animated drawings.
It is to learn to:
sing,
draw,
exercise some sport,
play some musical instrument
until you form skills
that last a lifetime.
It’s been feeling love towards
nature and animals,
and suffer when trees are felled
or there is a forest fire,
for the loss of habitats and flora and fauna.
Childhood is a unique opportunity,
in which, In most cases,
the child receives shelter from his family,
and through education,
discipline and perseverance
life is guided directed towards a successful
and productive adolescence and adulthood.
Being a child is:
It is to be mud in the hands of a sculptor.
It's like being water
that adapts to the mould that sustains you.
The bodies and souls of children are new,
their senses are more
avid,
perceptive,
strong and
alive
then those of an adult;
therefore all the sensations they perceive
are stronger:
their sight,
the smells,
the flavours,
the sensations,
They perceive everything with more avidity.
Being a child is:
It's climbing a tree
and finding an incomplete nest,
to bring it down and to try to finish it
to support the birds that built it;
and then climb the tree again,
and place the nest in its original place.
It is being rich with a few coins
It's being happy
eating ice cream when it's hot.
It is to be helpless towards life,
without the proper care of an adult.
It is feeling super-admiration
and adoration,
for the adults you love,
starting with your parents.
The children have the
bodily,
spiritual and
mental
strength, to win their battles.
Children like to explore the limits,
with an insatiable curiosity.
Children usually react with love,
and rarely with cruelty.
Being a child is:
Is to learn
to walk,
to ride a bike,
to sing,
to dance.
It is receiving a separate treatment
from adults;
adults always lower their guard
when they communicate with a child.
It's having hours of entertainment
with a balloon
Inflated with helium or with air.
It is applying
the power of your imagination,
to undertake and resolve
the setbacks you face.
It is learning,
based on trial and error.
Children like to be and play with
other children.
Is to always be
sweating or
scratched from somewhere,
or being hurt
It is constantly burning energies
with physical activity.
It is to
dance,
run,
slide
climb,
hide,
swim,
skip,
and else...
The bodily expressions of a child
are more avid and stronger
then those of an adult;
like when they start something new
that stimulates them
and their mind, body and facial expression
get excited.
It is beautiful to see and feel a happy child!
It’s applying one hundred and ten per cent of your skills,
to perform an activity,
when they are properly directed.
I write this reflection, according to my experiences and the third encounter with childhood, as a brother and now as a father.
