Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Abstinent and beleaguer

Two little boys playing in the sand. Building castles together. Driving toy trucks across the grass. Throwing rocks into each other's moats. They don't know how different they are. At this age, they don't care.

Add a few years, whisper some dark words into their ears, show them some history books. Suddenly it's a whole different game, less innocent, less fun. Who will be the one to exercise their restraint? Which will remember that at the end of the day, regardless of the differences, at the core they are the same? Human.

Who should have taught them that?

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