- Relationship between Children and Adults -
As I’m pretty sure most of you will recognize what I’m about to write as a more or less clear memory of your childhood, mine wasn’t far to be different from the cliché ones that we are or had experimented nor the ones that we mostly see on TV through movies, TV-shows or documentaries, I personally felt that in childhood I was outcast from the adult world as many of the adults would think that I didn't have the necessary intellect or knowledge to share with them a serious conversation and so as they seemed uncertain on how to converse with me, most of the topics were related to school, toys with most of the time a very weird "Mickey Mouse"-like voice coming out of their mouth like I wouldn’t be able to understand them otherwise…
As I was my parents' only child I was surrounded by adults all the time, whenever they invited friends or members of the family at home I was happy to know that I’ll see new faces in the house and was hoping that I could hear during the time of their stay a topic regarding something different than the baby subjects when they would speak to me.
But most of the time I was disappointed…
I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be a difference between children and adults because that’s not the case at all, as we all know almost if not all languages in the world have the two conceptions of what are children and adults and so it must be for a good reason!
But we perhaps forget or ignore the true relationship between them, as it is a real reminder cycle.
As a matter of fact none of them seem to be in their right place in most of the societies that we are living in today.
The child is as much as a teacher as the adult is to him. I don’t believe in an evolution that will grow up forever where the past of an individual is less stronger than the present individual and where the future of the individual will be stronger than the present existence of this same person.
Each personal time of life a person lives is a unique moment that has nothing to do with an evolution that would be represented as steps going always higher than the previous ones…
As we still can’t understand how some of the oldest civilizations dating back to thousands of years before our time could build the pyramids we are visiting all over the planet nor can we explain how they created such monuments with the tools we found around the sites - massive stone blocks walls that are so perfectly placed next to each other that even a razor blade couldn’t fit between them, we have to accept the ultimate fact that we are not the strongest and most clever civilization of all.
But no bad feelings here, as civilizations always seek for different understandings and techniques a human being isn’t really different from his community shape. He goes through different states of intellect, mind and physic to always understand more but he can be misguided when he takes for acknowledged forever a state of his past development.
As a child isn’t sharing his experience of life to the adults that live with him because none of them would be curious to know what he has to offer as most of them would think it’s a waste of time to concentrate on a child voice. They won’t remember what they have had learnt when they were living in this young age. If now, an adult isn’t showing what he understand in his current state of life but just projecting a mirror of what he found out as a cute and funny little person to the child, the child won’t learn much from the adult and might think that those “adults” are less than babies and as the matter of fact might totally crack up when they will be dealing with the hard reality of what’s an adult life is like today…
So I’d say that in my point of view it’s crucial to go behind the simple aspect of what seems to be a cute little and naïve being and start to listen to each other with the risk to actually learn something to obtain a more complete understanding of who we think we are.
No-Mad
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