
Originally Posted by
rodsky
From David Cameron...
"Of course the birth of any baby is a joy, and it’s great that Alfie and Chantelle want to look after Maisie the best they can. But seeing those pictures — looking into that boy’s bewildered eyes — I was both heartbroken and deeply concerned.
Heartbroken because while they have gained a beautiful girl, these kids have lost the innocence, the fun, the spontaneity that childhood is all about."
This might be a rather obtuse thing to say, but I have to argue that I prefer that kids lose their "innocence" at an early age, in the hopes that they would perhaps become better adept at handling all of life's ugly realities sooner, rather than later in life.
I've led a rather "normal, cheerful" childhood. My parents were quite liberal, yet they were pretty good disciplinarians as well--I don't recall raping anyone or robbing a bank when I was a kid LOL. However (and mind you, this is not to criticize how my parents raised me up), I do wish that somehow, I should've been told about the harsh realities of life earlier--I only began to slowly realize how hard life really was later in my life, during my college years, that it made me ponder if I could possibly have been more effective/efficient as a human being, if I only realized life's hardships and difficulties at an earlier age. So yes, I feel as if in a small way, I was pampered, to the point that I wasn't "tempered" enough to function better in a harsh, cruel world such as the one we live in now.
-RODION