November 22, 2005
Self Portrait Tuesday: Identity
There I was, sitting on the floor with my daughter enjoying a smoothie, when I looked down at the packaging.
Innocent.
How completely opposite Emily and I are in this respect. Of course maybe we would like to think we somehow retain a fragment of innocence when we get older, but I fear this is only a vague hope. We are all guilty of something. That may be as small and insignificant as, not washing out a can to be put in the recycling and instead lazily throwing it in the rubbish bin (hmm yes I did that the other day). Or it may be something deep within ourselves.
This is what makes our children so pure. No-one other than them can have this quality and it is what keeps them smiling and laughing and oblivious to the world as it really is. As it will be for them too someday. We can only protect them for so long.
This has been an impromptu and thought provoking SPT. Its funny how doing something so routine as drinking can lead onto other thoughts
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