Translated by big cousin Mike: "Aaron is a race-car driver, and I like Spider-man. I am four."
sittin' back with my little cousin is funny, so smart and so damn cool, that's all i have to say about this kid.
but aren't they all like that? Little bunches of human curiosity creating everything by thought and the desensitized feeling towards everything they encounter.
The little guy was scared of the water-heather, thought it was a dragon in my basement. We ran in and attacked the thing until death and it's amazing how you can do something like that... especially with plastic swords.
I mean that's why kids are freaking sick, I'd never do something like that on my own, I'd need a pure mind, an untouched imagination to share his wonder with me. I'd never seen the contemporary world act like that, not that they should all the time, but I mean don't we all have dragons to slay?
No problems, No worries, No responsibility... and it's completely ignorant to want that but luckily we all get it at the beginning of our lives, that world and the security around it.
Mabey thats why I look at my teen brothers and notice something different, something almost creepy about them, like they don't fit. There just tripping on the stepping stones to adulthood and I know that, I myself, are on the last leap but I take pride knowing I'm almost done the transaction; giving up everything I used to believe and wonder and trade it in for a suit and tie.
but I know that won't be me, I'm not letting go of that childlike mind, sure i'll have to hide it and choose to use it where it will work but it's just... refreshing. Later on I may lose it but i guess that's when i'll lose touch with the real me and I don't think that'll happen too soon either...
Even if I lose touch with the old me there's always something to remind me of those times; when I get kids they'll be proud to have a dad, a hero that they can look up to, to save them from their nightmares, build them tree forts, put candy-canes in there soda
and battle dragons
with plastic swords.
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