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Originally Posted by lostalex

well that's true, that's the ignorance is bliss argument right? like i'm sure retarded people are "content". because they don't know any better, they don't have any aspirations. I think a lot of people see retarded people being happy, and wish they could just enjoy the moment, and not feel that pressure to be something more. I know i do.

We see children and retarded people able to enjoy life on such a basic level. I think we all wish we could enjoy life on such a basic level. But we don't have that luxury, able-bodied adults have a greater responsibility so that children can just enjoy life.

It does seem like childhood is the best time in life, and unfortunately we were too stupid to really appreciate it.

It's really a cruel joke that childhood is the happiest we will ever be, but we are too ignorant to really appreciate it when we are children.

...in a way that's true and certainly, children don't generally have the stress and worries that adults do but I do think they do have lots of stuff that they worry about, just not the same stuff as us and they don't worry in the same way...sometimes they worry about what we might think are the silliest/smallest of things and we would say, oh you silly sausage/we can fix that...but for them, those worries are just as huge as ones we have because they're as real to them as ours are to us...in some ways, more so because they don't have the capabilities to understand them and reason them..but in other ways, less so because their minds/thoughts don't rush forward to start 'crossing bridges' that might never happen, like we do....LOL, I'm confusing myself...t'is early, Alex....but yeah, I think it's probably because I work with children who are quite 'discontent'....