BLOMMING INNOCENCE
W hat
is it that is most appealing about
children? Is it simply their physical beauty?
Is it their openness to loving and being loved?
Their playfulness, their innate humour?
Beyond these things, in my view, children are
beautiful because they possess something
that we have all lost – the quality of
innocence.
Innocence is not merely lovely, it is heartbreaking because it represents
Housman's "blue remember'd hills" … the "happy highways where I
went/and cannot come again".
I'd much rather see the world through the eyes of a child. They have an
innocence about them that is genuine and very real. It seems as you grow
into adulthood you lose that innocence and once you do it is gone forever.
Did you ever see a child's eyes light up at Christmas time as th