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365:28
YES!
Re: 365:28
Thanks for friending me and for commenting. Hope you keep writing/sharing your thoughts and experiences on your new LJ. =)
‘we make a good world bad’ – I would have flipped that sentence round. I find your version quite optimistic – in a twisted kind of way.
I see it as taking the good world of childhood and making it bad by forcing children to grow up too fast. I keep thinking of all these clips I see of girls who are being stage-parented–and little girls wearing high heels and makeup, not as costumes in play, but as if they’re miniature women.
The only job of a child should be childhood. There are impoverished and war-torn countries where the atrocities committed against children are beyond all comprehension. So certainly where there is peace and abundance, children shouldn’t have their childhoods stolen.
I was trying to sum all that up in the few words pulled from the poetry box.