Reflection

When we were still young then, when we were still in primary school, when given essay topics like "Lost", we would probably have written a crappy story about how once upon a time a little kid (yourself) was walking around in the neighbourhood and then got lost. Or that sort of thing. Seems to me that things have changed. Utterly.

Today, more often than not, when we say "lost" we mean not the physical sense of lost, but rather in a more intangible sort of way. For example a lost person doesn't know his direction or purpose in life. Many of us don't realise this, but we indeed have lost the innocence and naiveness we used to have as a child.

Childhood was a time when everything seemed right. Or at least that was true most of the time. Suddenly, we find ourselves stuck in this damned world that does not, at all, give a shit about who you are and what role you play, or might play in society. Nothing seems to fit anymore.

Maybe when I re-read this entry a year later, my ideas would have all changed again. Who knows?