Maybe you will always be just a little out of reach
One of my newest favorite movies is Martian Child. My favorite part of the movie is towards the very end with this line:
"Sometimes we forget that children have just arrived on the Earth. They are a little like aliens, coming into beings as bundles of energy and pure potential, here on some exploratory mission and they are just trying to learn what it means to be human."
*swoons* I can't help but love this. I want to stamp it on my forehead and make the world read it. I want to spoon it into mouths of teachers and parents and make them swallow it and regurgitate it in their actions. Even I need the reminder. We're dealing with little souls here, people. Little souls that are just discovering the world for the first time. What's the rush to grow up? Where's the harm in making mistakes? What's to gain from squelching their enormous dreams? How can I bring in a little more discovery and a little less standardization? What's stopping me from seeing the world through their eyes?
"Sometimes we forget that children have just arrived on the Earth. They are a little like aliens, coming into beings as bundles of energy and pure potential, here on some exploratory mission and they are just trying to learn what it means to be human."
*swoons* I can't help but love this. I want to stamp it on my forehead and make the world read it. I want to spoon it into mouths of teachers and parents and make them swallow it and regurgitate it in their actions. Even I need the reminder. We're dealing with little souls here, people. Little souls that are just discovering the world for the first time. What's the rush to grow up? Where's the harm in making mistakes? What's to gain from squelching their enormous dreams? How can I bring in a little more discovery and a little less standardization? What's stopping me from seeing the world through their eyes?