September 27th, 2003
A very important thing
I am sorry to change subjects in one day, and to interrupt again, but after turning off the computer I just remembered why I wanted to start today’s blog in the first place; and it is a very important thing to say…
I believe that if any person in this world contemplating aggression toward another would look at a photograph of the object of their fear (before age 13), there would be no more war to worry for. Few things are as leveling and capable of dissolving ill feelings as that of looking at someone’s childhood pictures. In this, we remember there was a time we were all young, pure, and without prejudice or contempt. Children are the most noble thing I person can aspire to give to the world and the greatest hope for peace and love.
The next time you’re upset at someone, look at a photograph of them from their youth, or failing that, one of your own. We were all once honest and in respectful wonder of everything that was different or foreign to us. Have we grown so cynical that we cannot feel that way again? For myself, my contemporary neighbors and my unborn children, I hope not.
