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December 2, 2006
What's Really Important?
The Little Prince is completely innocent when he leaves his planet. His main worries are his flower and volcanoes because he loves them and feels a responsibility towards them. He encounters grown-ups who are way too focused on numbers and other things that don’t really matter and he doesn’t understand why they are like that. When do you think we lose our innocence and start to focus on things like money and success? How does society influence the things we care about?
Posted by at December 2, 2006 3:55 PM | Little Prince
Comments
YOur question is a good one. As we grow older, we seem to concen ourselves with things "of consequence" when consequently, life is drifting by unaware of our concerns. Society operates on a system of trade and comerce, sustaining our accessabiity to goods. "Important" things to do, when one grows older, seem to revolve around supporting the lifestyle we are accostomed to. As we grow older and become "responsible" for things we see the world through an economic lens, shedding the innocent eyes that looked at the world through an unbiased view.
Posted by: Mary F. Wright at December 6, 2006 1:24 PM
As a society we are deffinatly concerned with shedding the physical traits of youth. We fight back with botox, liposuction, and lifting everything and anything that droops. Unfortuantly we are not so concerned with holding on to the mental state of a child because it is deemed as being inexperienced, foolish, undependable, and fickle. It is, according to society, far better to quickly glance back in reminicince at this time but keep your eyes focused on what's ahead because the future is always bigger, brighter, and better.
Posted by: Amy Moe at December 6, 2006 9:57 PM
I would have to say that once I started paying my own bills I really had to grow up. Missing work meant not getting paid and without money I can't pay my bills. Before this I thought the world was a great place. Now I'm a little more realistic. I try to remember that life is not always fair and sometimes people just screwed over. I work hard and I don't think that's such a bad thing.
Posted by: Sarah at December 8, 2006 8:57 AM
Some people never lose this innocence. I think we have to allow ourselves, and usually this happens before adolesence. One way that society influences us is media. We see so much on TV that molds our minds.
Posted by: Natalie at December 11, 2006 2:57 PM