Children are not that different from everyone else!
They are only smaller, and have had less time to learn, and have more of their growth ahead of them!
Ever since I was an adult, I always considered children to be precious and special.
Now I know that children are not that different from everyone else.
Sure, children are precious and special.
So are adults.
So are everyone!
Life is precious!
All life!
All the things that parents see as being special in their children are true- but they are true of everyone!
Adults included!
Life is precious!
And when writing stories, or creating art, the best things for children are often classics and beloved works that were created mainly with adults in mind!
Like Lord of the Rings- which Tolkien wrote in part to prove that fantasy was for adults, and not just children!
As a child, one of my favorite books was astronaut Michael Collins's Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places.
This is the version for younger, maybe 6th grade level readers of the same story, the same biography of his experiences as an astronaut, that he had already written for adults as Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys.
It is the same story- just rewritten for a 6th grade or so reading level.
Children are not that different from adults!
Childhood innocence is real- but if you choose to have faith in it, if you choose to have faith in innocence, you can have childlike innocence more deeply as an experienced adult than you ever did as a child!
This is the only difference between children and adults: aside from simply being smaller, children are still learning, are earlier in their learning curve, are less experienced.
But if you try you can still see the world with fresh, new eyes as an adult, not take things for granted. You do not have to loose that as an adult.
And you can have that along with all the knowledge and experience you have gained!
Children have so much potential. They can grow to be anything an adult can be.
But you don't stop learning as an adult.
And one thing that you can learn is that childlike innocence is something that you can choose to believe in.
And once you find the strength and insight to believe in childlike innocence, often despite having suffered greatly at one point in life, than you know and have that childlike innocence far more than the young child that only knows childlike innocence because it is all they have ever known!
And above all, all life is precious, and the potential of our mind is precious in everyone!
Something to think about!
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson