myOtaku.com: Dark Phoenix

Alright my fellow Otakus. This is going to be a different type of post for me. No quotes, no facts, or rants… just thoughts. I would say plain and simple, but I’m hardly either. So, I hope you can understand me, and that you appreciate the effort.

Why do I love children?

Humans by nature have many faces. A face we show to our parents, one to our friends, and another to teachers, and so on. They are all different in their complexity and the emotion that one is structured to show. Our friends would laugh at and scorn the one we show to our teachers. It’s a process we all go through… the building of these faces.

Which one of these many faces that we wear is the real us? Or are they all us? Each a delicate strand of the web we spin to handle this cacophony called life. All these faces are us, just as every strand of a web is needed for solidarity. They are the walls we need to protect us from the world abroad. Each face molded to fit the situation it is intended for. Did you know, that by the time a child is six, they have formed their problem solving patterns? I often wonder if the faces start to take shape when this process happens. Do our mental defenses form after our major break through in problem solving? After all, aren’t these faces just a solution to the problem of how to deal with the world around us? How to fit in?

The reason I love children? These faces do not exist yet, or they are in their simplest form. When a child smiles... they do so for the pleasure of smiling, and not because it’s the socially acceptable thing to do. They are simple, straight and narrow. What you see is what you get. This new, yet age old concept, of simplicity, purity if you will, fascinates me.

And that my friends, is why I love children.