May 2015
Doing work experience
in a nursery, aged fifteen.
All mood swings
and low self esteem.
Feeling self conscious
cause my face was spotty.
Little girl of about 3
comes up to me and asks
"Do you have chicken pox?"
Proceeds to tell me
What her Mummy
had done to help hers
And if I'm gonna get up from my seat
Cause you may be Moody,
You may be spotty
But you can still come
and play hopskotch with me.
Rid me of my newly found vanity.
Made me laugh so much,
Put me at ease
That level of inquisitive innocence,
Without any judgement,
That blessed naivete.
I don't think there's a
more endearing quality.
**A little one rarely fails to
restore my faith in humanity
in a nursery, aged fifteen.
All mood swings
and low self esteem.
Feeling self conscious
cause my face was spotty.
Little girl of about 3
comes up to me and asks
"Do you have chicken pox?"
Proceeds to tell me
What her Mummy
had done to help hers
And if I'm gonna get up from my seat
Cause you may be Moody,
You may be spotty
But you can still come
and play hopskotch with me.
Rid me of my newly found vanity.
Made me laugh so much,
Put me at ease
That level of inquisitive innocence,
Without any judgement,
That blessed naivete.
I don't think there's a
more endearing quality.
**A little one rarely fails to
restore my faith in humanity
I've been studying childhood recently and its hard to argue that it's not a social construct because children often have differing experiences of it. A lot of children grow up too fast and some don't have one at all. Maybe it's western bias but in my eyes it is a travesty because i can't help but think that some of the qualities that children possess (keeping it simple, honesty, the inability to hold a grudge, being mindful) we could all do well by holding on to in this social construct called Adulthood
