Reflection About Innocence

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From the day a person is born, everyday is a stepping stone towards their place in the world. Every person met and every book read is a new opportunity for a person to learn more about the world as well as themselves. With this new information, however, there is a serious price. The sweet innocence of a child is one the rarest and most treasured things in all of the world because the journey that every child takes. Even now as I write this on the fifteen year anniversary, I can say that I lost a significant part of my innocence on September 11th, 2001. I silently reflect on this and hope that I am the only generation that not only has to experience a tragedy like this at such a young age. But alas, The generation of my father and his father and on and on after that have always been a part of a war. Whether it is fighting on the battlefield or watching the horrors afar everyone …show more content…

Even years later I continue on these horrors by reading the books about the countless wars, tragedies, assassinations, and corruptions hoping that one day the world will learn. Through my entire life onward there has been one continuous ideal that I have held true to this day. Knowledge is cruel, but not as cruel as man. This idea of worldwide cruelty has been built up since I was a young child due to my exposure to my surroundings. The books I read, the television I watched, and the talks I overheard from my parents all had a significant impact on my view of the world. But what if it isn 't the world at all and instead is my own and other 's interpretation of the world instead? In Plato 's work The Allegory of the Cave, the characters Socrates and Glaucon discuss the idea of a metaphorical cave where people are only ever able to see shadows of objects on a the

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