Shared Secret: II

This week, I'm posting two secrets. One of them is the one I'd pick if I just had to choose one (obviously) and is my preferred pick of the two... but the other one was interesting to me because it arose a question in my mind that I wanted to share and ask others.

My first pick:

Oh, the narwhal! Lovely creatures; the nautical unicorns, i'd say.

i think children have one of the clearest perspectives of the world and can teach us a lot more about it, and ourselves, than most of us realize.


My second pick:

Not sure whether this was an empowering moment for the individual, or maybe a moment that left them feeling a bit devoid, or maybe neither or somewhere in between, but it brought to mind this question of: do you think we all have a "last day" of our childhood? Some sort of end or close to that chapter and we move to the next? Or does/can one remain in that state for all their days to come?

When Sam and I were reading the secrets together, after we'd read this one, Sam said "Hm. Wonder when that day will be..." to which I replied, "If we reach it at all." For I feel that, if one chooses to, they can and will remain in their childhood; living with the eyes of a child. Which isn't to say that one wouldn't be growing... for our childhood is so heavily based on constant growth, awareness and discovery. But, of course, this question is a bit subjective-- depending on what the individual defines as "childhood."

I suppose these two picks I made are related thematically, with this idea of a child's perspective and childhood...
A place where plastic bags are kites, your bed is a mardi gras float, a tennis ball that the dog tore in half is a tiny bowl in which you prepare dinner, and your babysitter does indeed turn into a mermaid at night. where she swims with the shiniest turquoise tail and the friendliest nautical unicorns.