QotD: Lost and Found

What have you lost that you wish you could get back?
Submitted by, Witch Hazel

This is probably going to be a little bit of a depressing post, but…I'd say my innocence. You know, back when you're a kid how you think the world is all black and white and people want to help each other out and such. And then you grow up and learn that it's not exactly like that at all, really? Just like when they told you that Christopher Columbus discovered America and made friends with the indians and not the fact that the vikings were already there and he didn't even really land on the main continent. Oh and he brutally enslaved the native population in a search for gold.

I just sometimes wish I could go back to the days of not knowing how the world really is out there, and how hard it can be at times just to survive, let alone chase your dreams. It's not all gloom and doom of course, but it's not as rosy of a picture as I thought when I was a kid.

I think I've had a pretty good life so far, personally. Things could be better, but they always can be. I've got good family and good friends. But it just gets depressing seeing seeing things on the news all the time about the greed and squabbling of humanity. I'd like to believe people are basically good and that they aren't out to get you, but it's really hard to hold to that these days. It would be nice not to have to be suspicious all the time of people's intentions.

I dunno about anyone else (I'm assuming this is a fairly common experience), but I went through a period as I moved out of high school and into the "real world" where every preconceived notion that I had ended up not being aligned with reality. I don't think the fact that 9/11 happened only a few weeks after I started college helped that either. It kinda felt like I was tossed out into a turbulent world when I thought it was supposed to be calm, and it took a while to reorient myself. But I think I'm finally starting to get back on track.

So I'd like to get back those days before I saw the world for what it was and the only thing I wanted to be was an Astronaut. Or maybe a Bus Driver. Depends.

Then again, that'd just be ignoring the problem. And ignoring what's going on is what got us into this mess in the first place. So while it would be nice to live a happy, sheltered existance…it wouldn't be real. And if one pretends that there are no problems, it's impossible to even try to fix them.

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