Innocence

One of the best things about kids is the fact that they are completely innocent in everything.  They come to everything with a fresh pair of eyes, an open mind, curiosity, and wonder.  It makes doing most anything so much more interesting (and frustrating, lol!) when done with a child.  Kids are fun, precocious, darling, and probably our most important treasure.  People love children for this, and who can blame them?  Children love unconditionally, trust implicitly, and give without expecting something in return.

To take away a child's innocence in any way is beyond me.  I can't fathom a person who would do something so horrible to a child that s/he couldn't live their childhood as a child anymore.  For a person to take the life of a child, on purpose?  Unconscionable.  20 children, all of them around 5 years old?  My mind refuses to even fathom that extreme, and yet that's exactly what happened today in Connecticut.  What kind of person kills a bunch of innocent children????????

I have been so sad all day regarding this.  Many, many tears have been shed.  My heart feels so heavy, and I cry for how the families of those poor children feel tonight.  I can't do anything about this to make it better, and it breaks my heart that there is so little that can be done to ease the pain, grief, and horror of this event.  It's my hope that writing about it will help me feel better, but honestly I just feel even sadder.  Life is not fair, I know, but life has been bitterly unfair to these children, their families, and their community. 

L is almost 4, almost ready to be in kindergarten.  These kids were 5 and in kindergarten.  When I see what kind of person she is right now, and what she grow into in another year, I can't imagine having that cut off and never having her light around again.  Children have such potential to do so many things, and Lily's potential grows and grows.  I can only hope that the children that were lost today have passed their energy, light, and potential on to the universe, so that someday karma can balance their loss into something of wonder.