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Come As A Child

Life should be built on love and happiness, just like a child sees.

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Come As A Child

Remember when you were a child? You had these wonderful ambitions. You wanted to be an astronaut, the president, or even a circus ringleader. You were bright and full of love. What happened to that? I can tell you. People…people happened.

A child’s heart is so pure and innocent. It knows no evil. So how have we grown to judge and hate others? My dad has been saying for a while to “come as a child”. I never fully understood what that meant until I realized how crazy this world is and what it is coming to. A child wakes up and sees light where there’s darkness and smiles where there are tears. Some adults wake up dreading the day and even hating the people around them. The kids you see playing at the park and riding their bikes know no such thing as hate; hate is taught.

Let’s stop teaching our children to live the way some people have before us. Life should be built on love and happiness, just like a child sees. We act as though we are wise beyond our years, but in reality if we were as wise as we say we are, there would not be so much animosity and anger surrounding us. We would simply wake up, and come as a child. I challenge all of you to open your eyes tomorrow and see the good in the world, not the bad. Wave at a stranger, no matter their color or gender. Help an elderly person load groceries into their car. Pay for the coffee the person behind you ordered. After all, isn’t that what a child would do?

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