This precious child sleeps, as New Yorkers fly through Penn Station in the whirlwind of the big apple. When I look at children, I see hope. In fact, it may be that children are the world's greatest hope. They know how to laugh and play, and they experience the world with curiosity. And with them, we can undo humanity's great flaw: Separation. Teach love, and the world will be filled with it. Teach bitterness, bigotry, and hate...well, then the world will be filled with it.
Where does our inner child go when we grow up? At what point does a soul become so jaded with the world that it is no longer a miracle, and that each day is no longer an adventure? It breaks my heart to know that so many people lose that appetite for life that children have. We must never let go of our childish instincts.
"Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything." ~Giacomo Leopardi, an Italian poet in the early 1800s.
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