Post by Penny on Mar 13, 2012 15:25:36 GMT -5
Adults really are peculiar when it comes to fears. They seem to think that factoring logic into every situation somehow makes everything better. In truth, it just makes them lose sight of all their HUMAN fears- the primal urges and horrors they think evolution has done away with. They fear distant, brutal things, things hardly known to our ancient ancestors even as they happened every day. They fear Hell, judgment, facing up to take responsibility, commitment, the whole lot of things that just a few centuries ago didn’t exist.
But children… ah, that’s where the key lies. Their innocent minds, unimposed upon by the poisons of the ‘Real World.’ They see what we can’t. They see what we feel. We throw away their thoughts as fanciful, naïve...
What if what they see is real? The monsters lurking in the darkness, the nightmarish fiends, all waiting, waiting for their chance to strike…
And teens? We’re caught in the middle. Notice the high rates of depression, insomnia, eating disorders, suicide, and other such things are so high for us. We’re the ones who can snap at any moment, the ones with slowly draining sanity. We’re the ones just waiting… waiting for the moment in time when all Hell breaks loose, or we forget it all like our parents, or we just… give up.
We let the monsters get us.
But children… ah, that’s where the key lies. Their innocent minds, unimposed upon by the poisons of the ‘Real World.’ They see what we can’t. They see what we feel. We throw away their thoughts as fanciful, naïve...
What if what they see is real? The monsters lurking in the darkness, the nightmarish fiends, all waiting, waiting for their chance to strike…
And teens? We’re caught in the middle. Notice the high rates of depression, insomnia, eating disorders, suicide, and other such things are so high for us. We’re the ones who can snap at any moment, the ones with slowly draining sanity. We’re the ones just waiting… waiting for the moment in time when all Hell breaks loose, or we forget it all like our parents, or we just… give up.
We let the monsters get us.
