CHILDISH QUESTIONS
Copyright 2021 Don Ray
The curiosity and incredulity and bafflement and
criticism with which children view our human world is exquisitely
justified. They see it for what it is, and are not averse to expressing
their dismay. Of course Yeshu (Jesus) said “of such as these is the
Kingdom”. But by middle adulthood necessities of social survival have
blinded us to the madness, for it is too painful to be a part of it if you too
acutely recognize it is madness.
The “why?” you ask at age nine of your parents
you dare not ask at age twenty nine of your boss or spouse or friends.
Our need for financial and social survival
ensures our complicity in propagating the madness to which we willingly and
necessarily blind ourselves.
Let our descendants five hundred years hence
laugh at our styles, clothing, trends, fads, and follies. They cannot
understand how desperate we were to belong and to get along, and they will
certainly be engaging in their own versions of the madness we call “society”.
Perhaps one reason we remain so desperately busy
is that a moment of stillness and quiet might pose the risk of remembering,
remembering childhood when we still questioned,
Copyright 2021 Don Ray
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