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Looking at Life through the Eyes of Children

Excerpted from The Most Philosophic Essays, edited by Xu Hanlin

When we were children, everything we saw was new, wonderful, exciting, and unbelievable. We were happy if it was raining or snowing, if it was hot or cold, if it was night or day. We just wanted to discover all the things that were around us.

For us the only big difference was that we were awake or asleep. When we were awake, we wanted to extend the time just for playing with our friends or being with our pet a little more time.

But we can’t stop time. Children grow and we become adults; and as adults, we no longer have enough time for little things —— discovering a rainbow is not surprising, seeing a building with 50 floors is not amazing, and looking at a giraffe in the zoo is normal. A rainy day is a bad day because the traffic will be slow, and the first day of spring makes us think about allergies.

The first day of the month is not the beginning of a new month; it’s the time to think about bills. Going to the supermarket is an obligation; it is not just for the pleasure of walking down the aisles and looking for things and seeing the people around us.

Life is a process in which everyone has many obligations, but if everyone tried to see life through the eyes of a child, I am sure that everyday could be better.

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Giraffe n. 长颈鹿

Allergy n. ( 医 ) 敏感症