So here I am committed to the promise of continuing the blog. Keeping mine and everyone else's lives busy with this literary banter.
Last night I was astounded by my son when I realized that as a human race we truly do know everything as children and slowly forget it as we age. Elliot (my son) was asking my wife and I about when we got married and me being the stark individual that I can be from time to time, chose to reply to his inquiry in a rather adult way. After all there's only so much Elmo and Disney speech I can handle before my brain converts to cellophane. I said "Yes mommy and daddy got married but, marriage is a big decision and should never be a rushed process." Who ever thought I would be the one to give fatherly advice. This is where he completely floored me with his response: "It takes patience." Does anyone want to explain to me how a 2 year old kid knows this stuff? Obviously there is only one explanation, Don't vaccinate your kids..... Actually, no that's just stupid.
The answer is that we must know a lot before we grow up and somewhere between childhood and adulthood we lose track of it. Like the memory of a dream, what we know and what we are confident in slowly deteriorates. That is why in honor of my son Elliot's awesome revelation I will strive to find the median between adulthood and childhood. This kind of balance could lead me back to the sweet and tender bliss that came from Charleston Chews with 7up chasers on those sunny, carefree, Saturday afternoons. After cartoons of course.
Ciao!!
Ian! I love this. I think to some degree you're absolutely right. I'm not a parent (yet) but I can only imagine it's pretty hard to not "mold" your child into something, and maybe let them take the wheel and become what they will. Thanks for sharing this story. By the way, this is Lorena!
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