Today I welcome to the blog Youngest Daughter. The opportunity to post here is one of two rewards she earned today by writing a page of math work neatly and correctly. The other reward involved chocolate.
¡Hola! Mi con mucho gracias! I don’t know what I just said,
but I would like to let you know that the name that I will be using from now
on, Ailsa Roovene, is not a real name, but a pseudonym for another identity.
Anyways, I have come onto this blog today to speak of an important topic: The
Singularity of the Soul. The singularity of the soul is a very interesting
thing to speak of, and also can be very confusing to write about. So, please,
bear with me as I tell you all about it.
The singularity of the soul is a person’s self-awareness,
and the non-anyone-else-awareness. This may not be common among you grown-ups,
but it is certainly common among my fellow children. We of this age do not
understand the problems of the outside world, (at least, most of us don’t) and
don’t recognize others’ positions until they are described to us. And even
then, we may not be entirely clear on the topic. For instance, I, until a
moment ago, didn’t understand the difficulty of the teacher when grading 300
test papers. And even now, I still don’t fully grasp the enormity of the task
set to those poor teachers. This generation doesn’t think of life beyond their
scope of experience, and doesn’t grasp the difficulty of those in other positions
that we have not experienced ourselves.
In my opinion, this is because of the protected lifestyles
that most American children now lead. We don’t understand the situation of
starvation, because we have no idea how that could be in the perfect world that
we know. (Of course, some children actually do understand the difficulty of
these people, and the problems of the world. These children are called “those
who have the ability to step in to others’ shoes”.) Ahem. Anyways. We don’t
understand how the world could have evil in it that isn’t pure evil, or good
that isn’t pure good. Our life is centered around ourselves and our friends,
not caring for those, say, in Africa or India. Even if we are told, we don’t
care, since it isn’t important to the lives that we lead currently. The only
evil we are experienced with is the evil in movies and video games, and we know
that these aren’t real. We can’t care about the difficulty of others in other
places, even if we are told about it, because we don’t have the scope of
experience to understand their pain.
I hope you enjoyed my talk about: The Singularity of the
Soul. ¡Adios!
5 comments:
Youngest daughter wrote this?!!
We have not talked in a while but this is very well written and so true
Very well said. I would like to point out that it is not just children but many others that seem to have this problem. Not to get all "political" or anything, but take the 99% (occupy this or that space) people as an example. Some (not all) of these people show up to protest that they are the poor, "whoa-is-me" 99% with Starbucks in hand! how ridiculous is it that they have no clue that they are, by far, in the top 1% when compared to the rest of the world. I find it very frustrating.
She's a smart cookie, that one.
Thank yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Thank you sooooo much!
I don't know what to say in the face of such complimenting comments!
Ailsa Roovene
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