That’s true of young children in general. For most, the complexities of living don’t concern them obsessively as they do adults. Children enjoy the simple pleasures we no longer purely do: playing hide-and-seek; splashing in rain puddles; licking a dripping ice cream cone; chasing lightning bugs; catching snowflakes on the tongue; making rainbows with a water hose … To see a child’s healthy happy smile is a sunburst from our own past shining briefly.
That’s true of young children in general. For most, the complexities of living don’t concern them obsessively as they do adults. Children enjoy the simple pleasures we no longer purely do: playing hide-and-seek; splashing in rain puddles; licking a dripping ice cream cone; chasing lightning bugs; catching snowflakes on the tongue; making rainbows with a water hose … To see a child’s healthy happy smile is a sunburst from our own past shining briefly.