Bliss decreases with Understanding
Certain factors and things in the world begin to lose their value and appreciation as time progresses. A child perceives the world as a safe playground full of fun and new exciting adventures waiting for them to explore. When a child gets ready to explore this world, they approach it with a blissful ignorance of not knowing the reality and truth behind many things. This very world the child lives in is viewed differently by an adult. As one grows into an adult, and gains an understanding and knowledge about the world around them, it just seems a little less shiny. When we are young we are at the peak of our innocence because we have a minimal understanding and knowledge about the world and its realties. The blissful mindset a child has is caused by this lack of understanding. This mindset gradually changes with age because we gain a better understanding and knowledge of certain realties, influencing us to view the world less happily. Many people have a difficult time viewing the world as a blissful place as adults. In Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It was Friday,” trauma victims deal with the constant dilemma of having overwhelming and unexplainable dissociations. These victims seem to portray something different from what normal people experience. Trauma causes a person to remain in the past instead of moving forward in the present and future. In Daniel Gilbert’s “Immune to Reality”, a person’s psychological mindset has the power to formulate explanations for certain circumstances, which leads to a positive outlook. The world becomes a less blissful place with age because we gain understanding and knowledge while our youthful innocence diminishes, as explanations for events b...
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...the realities and pains behind certain things. It is extremely common for adults to be able to explain most of the events they are involved with at an older age. When an adult comes across something that is unexplainable, they seem to view it with more joy. Explanations are the key to what we view as pleasure or joy in the world. When we do not have an explanation for events or surroundings, they seem to linger and stay in our mind where when we do have an explanation, we simply forget about them. Simply as Gilbert states, “Explanation rocs events of their emotional impact because it makes them seem likely and allows us to stop thinking about them” (227). We can apply this concept to solar eclipses, as it is a beautiful sight to see and cherish, yet it in unexplainable. We do not need to have explanations for things to be viewed upon as blissful.
The glimpse of life and what will be gone when you die. The beauty of what people misses while they are caught up in their childish ways.
The way my friends and colleagues, and generally speaking, members of society are raised can impact them psychologically. Whether it is being put on a pedestal or being the victim of ignorance, experiences shape the attitude of humans. In “How to Land Your Kid in Therapy,” Lori Gottlieb talks about her patients with great childhoods instead of talking about the patients who had bad childhoods. As she listens to her patients, she realizes that the parents did too much for their children, and consequently set them up for failure. Due to overprotection and not much discipline, these children have concerns, unhappiness, and feelings of being lost. When she thinks of all the experiences her patients have had with their parents, she relates it to her experience of
The most wonderful look in the world is the look a child gives when they have learned the endless possibilities life has to offer. Just as soon as a child seems to gain the mentality of the glass world, it just as quickly shatters by the realities of life. People come from all different paths in life, but it seems the basic experiences remain the same: happiness, love, friendship, grief, heartbreak, and tragedy. Most people have experienced happiness, perhaps in the laugh of a baby just as most people have experienced tragedy with the loss of a loved one. Though tragedy does not walk alone in its path, it joins trauma, and together they live forever breaking glass worlds. It seems as if trauma comes down on glass worlds like a weight that cannot
Not only is human connection vital to live a happy and joyful life, but it is necessary to create a legacy, and thus live on through others. But in order to do this, one must first overcome their ego and their sense of self. Once all of the “I” thoughts are gone, one can relate, but fully understand, the higher powers as well as other human beings around us. However, it is important to accept that we may never fully understand the driving force of this universe. While it can be experienced, and we can briefly get an idea of what it is, it is impossible to define these concepts in words, because we don’t have a language that transcends what we can understand. And though many recognize that these concepts could never be fully understood by the human brain, determined minds continue to ask questions that will never have an answer, “pushing their minds to the limits of what we can know” (Armstrong,
How does a child feel when their parents conceive destructive values and manipulative connotations? To any child a parent is the person that they look up to and in most cases look for encouragement. However, some parents tend to value destruction and their own self-gain more than the life of their child. Both William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” and Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” demonstrating a principle that when parents are bound to their twisted, manipulative, and even immoral values that their children will ultimately be the ones to pay the price as they either embrace the similar hollow values themselves or set out to fulfill their own desires through often times self-destructive means.
Loss of innocence can happen in many ways. Some losses are enormous and hugely impactful, like killing, while others are small and subtle like growing up. Innocence is lost in the most innocuous ways, most of which aren’t noticeable, which brings this paper to a closing question, something implied through both of these works; something to think about. Is every loss of innocence bad, or are they just stepping stones on the path to becoming an adult?
In John Connolly’s novel, The Book of Lost Things, he writes, “for in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be”. Does one’s childhood truly have an effect on the person one someday becomes? In Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, this question is tackled through the recounting of Jeannette and Amir’s childhoods from the perspectives of their older, more developed selves. In the novels, an emphasis is placed on the dynamics of the relationships Jeannette and Amir have with their fathers while growing up, and the effects that these relations have on the people they each become. The environment to which they are both exposed as children is also described, and proves to have an influence on the characteristics of Jeannette and Amir’s adult personalities. Finally, through the journeys of other people in Jeannette and Amir’s lives, it is demonstrated that the sustainment of traumatic experiences as a child also has a large influence on the development of one’s character while become an adult. Therefore, through the analysis of the effects of these factors on various characters’ development, it is proven that the experiences and realities that one endures as a child ultimately shape one’s identity in the future.
In the articles “Growing Up” by sweetdollsarah and “Growing Up too Fast” by jadeharrison6457, the author conveys growing up to be both fun and dreadful. Sweetdollsarah from Hemet, CA contrasts growing up to be much like cough syrup; helping your sickness but leaving a sour, bitter aftertaste in your mouth. The author of “Growing Up” connects to the audience with something they have most likely experienced, drinking cough syrup. In “Growing Up too Fast”, the author jadeharrison6457 leads the audience to believe growing up is full of regret through their assertive tone throughout the article. The goal of both articles is to let readers know to take advantage of childhoods before they’re gone and to live in the moment. Growing up is different
In the world of science there are many discoveries. “A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature … and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.” (Ferdinand Puretz). Most people in the world we live in lack to notice and or appreciate the gift of sight in life. By not cherishing the gift of sight and using it properly, many discoveries are left unfound. In the writing piece, Seeing, Annie Dillard speaks of nature and the small things that we all are unconsciously blind to and not appreciative of. Seeing explores the idea of what it means to truly see things in this world. Annie Dillard’s main point is that we should view the world with less of a meddling eye, so that we are able to capture things that would otherwise go unnoticed. There’s a science to how we view things in nature. Dillard attempts to persuade her reader to adopt to her way of seeing, which is more artificial rather than natural.
youth to set the standards of what tomorrow will be like. Without a peaceful childhood
Humanity as a whole is complex. Every experience and action that has happened creates and forms a person’s identity. People’s childhood memories and the environment they are born and raised into are the building blocks in creating the character of an individual. The environment that shapes youth will have a lifelong impact. This is shown in Under the Ribs of Death by John Marlyn in Sandors life, living on Henry Avenue in Winnipeg’s North End, through the restriction of ones upbringing, emotions associated with, and the memories attached to an environment.
A person is the way they are based on their childhood. People who have a happy childhood, with loving and caring parents, tend to have a happy adulthood. On the other hand, people who had a poor childhood, with disapproval of their own parents, usually do the same to their children or others around them, sometimes contributing to their murders. Infancy is one of the more important stages in a person’s development. Without proper care, and attention, it can have major consequences. Infancy is one of the most fragile and important stages in the development of a human and their emotions. Infancy is a crucial period for the proper development of emotions for the adult personality. (Vronsky 2004). The first twelve months of a person’s life are critical in the development of emotions like remorse and affection. When a child does not receive adequate attention and physical contact during their first twelve months, they could suffer personality disorders in their future. (Freeman 2). When a child does not get enough love, and affection from their parents, they will end up lacking in the ability to show affection or remorse. If they are not taught that from infancy, they will not learn it. Infancy is a crucial period in everyone’s life, and it should be taken with a serious, but gentle hand. As infancy can have major effects on the developing adult personality, childhood trauma can
... growth where a child is forced to start looking for solutions for everything that is wrong instead of simply being a child. This analysis prove that children have their own way of seeing things and interpreting them. Their defense mechanisms allow them to live through hard and difficult times by creating jokes and games out of the real situation. This enables then to escape the difficulties of the real world.
The concept of childhood innocence began with the Romantic view of childhood, where children were seen as pure and sin free. The concept was greatly influenced by the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Rousseau, (1765) believed that children are born good and guiltless, and through life experiences, they learn badness and guilt. Most parents see their children as innocent and want to protect them from the bad world we live in. This is not always easy, especially when the country they live in is at war and children take part in it, or they live in a poor country. The war and lack of sufficient money are some of the challenges the childhood innocence faces in today's world.
The child has a hard time realizing that though there are many other people and things in their world, none of them are more important than the child himself. The child believes that his point of view is the only point of view of the world. This is caused by his inability to put himself in someone’s else’s shoes (Smith). The concrete operational period, spanning between the ages of 7 and 11, is marked by the onset of logic in the young mind. The child is able to mentally manipulate objects and events.