Kids think the darndest things...
"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways." The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child...
I assumed everyone somehow started out the same way I did. They all came from the same sort of family with they same sort of resources. Everyone had the same experiences and the same opportunities.
When I was a child...
I thought there came a point in one's life where he or she purposefully decided to "make it" or simply get by. I thought those who were broke, poor, in jail or on the street wound up in those situations by their own free will.
When I was a child...
I thought crimes were committed by those who were purely evil and couldn't possibly have any good in them, those kinds of people who did bad things because they were bad people.
When I was a child...
My eyes were covered with the rose colored glasses of childhood, my horizons were only as broad as my experiences and my capacity to understand them.
But I'm not a child anymore.
I know that not everyone gets the same start, not everyone comes from the same family situations, not everyone has the same experiences and opportunities.
I know that there isn't a point when one decides which level of society he or she will occupy, but we are all preconditioned in one way or another by those things in life's history and surrounding context that we cannot control, and those things cannot help but influence decisions we make.
I know that not everyone convicted of a crime is inherently bad or evil, just tired, fed up, or simply hungry.
With the passing of time and the experiences of life, I have learned that there were a lot of people who had it way better than I did, and there were a lot more who had it way worse than I did.
When I was a child I thought those childish things, but now that I am an adult I have put away such childish thoughts. It's a shame that a lot of adults have yet to put away such childish thoughts.
CPT
When I was a child...
I assumed everyone somehow started out the same way I did. They all came from the same sort of family with they same sort of resources. Everyone had the same experiences and the same opportunities.
When I was a child...
I thought there came a point in one's life where he or she purposefully decided to "make it" or simply get by. I thought those who were broke, poor, in jail or on the street wound up in those situations by their own free will.
When I was a child...
I thought crimes were committed by those who were purely evil and couldn't possibly have any good in them, those kinds of people who did bad things because they were bad people.
When I was a child...
My eyes were covered with the rose colored glasses of childhood, my horizons were only as broad as my experiences and my capacity to understand them.
But I'm not a child anymore.
I know that not everyone gets the same start, not everyone comes from the same family situations, not everyone has the same experiences and opportunities.
I know that there isn't a point when one decides which level of society he or she will occupy, but we are all preconditioned in one way or another by those things in life's history and surrounding context that we cannot control, and those things cannot help but influence decisions we make.
I know that not everyone convicted of a crime is inherently bad or evil, just tired, fed up, or simply hungry.
With the passing of time and the experiences of life, I have learned that there were a lot of people who had it way better than I did, and there were a lot more who had it way worse than I did.
When I was a child I thought those childish things, but now that I am an adult I have put away such childish thoughts. It's a shame that a lot of adults have yet to put away such childish thoughts.
CPT
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