Growing Up

How true it is: even as responsibilities (and their flip-side of worry) proliferate, as we take on so many more burdens and find that we must internalise the normative expectations and behavioural or cognitive and technologically-mediated vocabularies of a world that itself hardly knows any better than does an infant when first learning to walk, we still carry that precious childhood light of curiosity and innocence inside us.

It is not immaturity, it is a deep wisdom that never leaves us.