Isn't it Ironic, don't you think?

when we were young...

'i don't want to do that it's so childish'
'those kind of things are for children'

It is very easy to hear these words being spoken by adults and ashamed they should be. Suddenly being 30 and over gives them the right to criticise and belittle things that are deemed only for the young. attitudes, games, cultures and much more.

The truth is they are more like children than they think.

There is no shame in watching finding nemo in a cinema full of the non shaving society or getting down on your knees to play twister. Even the bitchy attitude exhibited by 5 years old is nothing to look down on in disgrace but just a reflection of the basic broken down explanation of our own behaviour.

He is one such man. related through paternity but still he seems eager to deal with us in a way that puts him on a pedalstal. We are still refered to as the children in conversations with other 'adults' even though i am legal to drink in just about every country on the planet (except for those where drinking full stop isn't legal - shame! that won't be on my holiday list), we are still addressed as behaving senselessly or not being old enough to really understand 'adult' situations.


Ignorant words like that shock and insult me to the core but yet what can you say. My tradition dictates that i as a production of my family know nothing and cannot be seen to be incontradiction as the mere status and date of birth deprives me of such priviledge. The truth is i have felt things that not many have endured, i have experience things that the brave would blush over and i have been victim in some situations that they would find it hard to deal with. In the end i am here, alive, emotionally stable, a fight which i survived perhaps on my own but i would say God had a hand in some of it. One cannot claim to know and feel what the young feel simple because they have lived on the planet the longest. One can go through their hole life and yet not experience as much as a small child who perhaps has been through starvation, prostitution, abuse and neglect (NOTE: this is just an example of children out there this christmas). These children cannot be deprived of the right to speak their minds simple because of their age.

The truth is, the adults are no better than the children. Ok so what is childishness, screaming because you don't get what you want, fighting with the other kids at school, recklessly doing this that can cause harm not only to your and others, ignorance? being naiive? ha!

I can tell you this much, we have a bit of that in all of us. The boy grow up to be men, just the toys get bigger, their mothers still fuss over them or if they are lucky their wives play the role of their mothers. They still play my sand box is bigger than yours game just with cars and houses. If fact the bitchiness doesn't really disappear either they've just found clever new ways to hidding it as they years have granted them knowledge. As for ignorance and being naiive...one only needs to look through history and the mess we've made of it.

You call us childish? Take a look in the mirror...