ILLUSIONS

"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, each Maid a Heroine, and each man a friend!" - Henry Wardsworth

A child is pure and doesn't know the world beyond its comfort zone of love, parent-child relationship and warmth. It is more prone to fall in the trap of negativity and ignorance. Thus it accepts whatever comes in its way as an opportunity and looks forward refining and converting it into what educators call as optimism or pessimism. The above mentioned quote describes the innocence and perspective of youth who aspires to become a responsible adult one day. But I disagree to a certain extent. The comfort zone does have an impact. Illusions and imitations force it to behave like a selfish adult. Superiority, groupism, parental attitude and bringing up are all factors that influence the child to behave in an unexpected manner.

I often wonder, as a child what did I achieve as a good and reasonable person? My desires, dreams and destination were quite unknown to me. Did I try to ever know them? I do regret not getting along well with those who didn't want me to be their best friend. Helping others, being fair and treating everyone equally were true for me only in books and not in real life.