Innocence

Guagua and good friend billy at Bedok jetty

It was a good outing yesterday. the kids did a run of abt 800m near the lagoon. then spent time playing sand before going to sushi tei at big splash for lunch and jalan.

As I watched the two boys interacting, it struck me that how much we have lost when we walked thru childhood and move into adolescence and adulthood. In childhood, there were so much spontaneity and interaction, from cracking jokes among them which only they understand (and in adults' eyes, doesnt make sense), to holding hands and galloping along while talking, and bursting into sudden runs and stopping to examine something they found intriguing on the ground (which in our eyes, may be insignificant and trivial)...

we were at bedok jetty watching people fishing and there these two boys were, running from container to container to find the fishes that were taken from the hooks, standing next to the adult fishermen, making comments and talking, with little inhibition...

in my eyes, they were appreciating the finer things in life

so, it hurts when we see our children losing this sense of innocence and gaining the sense of inhibition when they enter the schools, the adult world... all in the name of progress. But is this process inevitable?

Perhaps, really, we shld slow down and even to stop and just...

smell the roses.

Guagua having his haircut. process is so interesting to watch... esp his changes in expression.

it's Sunday and tomorrow is Monday.