If you have a Time Machine
Where would you like to be?
Junior tells me he'd zap back to the Jurassic Age
Where he'd have fun and cavort with Dinosaurs all day
The Slim Lady says the bachelorette days is where she'd be
Where life is all easy and carefree
No husband to nag, no kids to scream at
Just she, herself, and the Slim Lady
As for me
The thought came pretty quick
My childhood
That's the place I'd revisit
For childhood is where
Innocence lives
Where dreams are alive
And know no limit
Where kids can throw their clothes on the floor
Believing in the magical forces
That will somehow return their clean and folded clothes
Back to their dresser drawers
Where kids are lucky
They pay no rent
Where they only have to study
To keep Mum and Dad really happy
Where kids never need to wait in line
At the bank, ATM or the supermarket
And should they ever need to queue
It's entrance to the movies such as Shrek and Garfield!
Where kids are unsophisticated little souls
They accept you the way you are
Never judging how you look
Or the kind of job that you do
Where the kids are so full of goodness
They know not what is evil
And their only pre-requisite for friendship
Is friendliness
To a kid
Everything has an answer
If Mum and Dad are stumped or don't know what to do
There's always Grandpa or Grandma to turn to
Adults cry
Usually for themselves
Kids cry, too
But mostly, over little pets that died
If there is a Time Machine
Back to my Childhood
That's the best place to be
Now, don't you quite agree?
Category: Humoresque
11 comments:
My wife during a business trip to India noticed that the poor kids there wearing forlorn faces which actually should be shown in adult faces - very pitiful. Coming back to childhood happiness, or rather any stage of our life, I believe everything is relative to our physical and social environment. Just imagine if we were borned in some dirt poor or politically corrupted countries, we would not even know when the next meal comes from. Would these people wish to go back to their childhood ? Of course this scenario does not apply to the rich people.
Zen, I know where you're coming from. Your definition of "happiness", if I read it correctly, is based on how wealthy one is. Naturally, a child who is always hungry is probably not happy, and would probably have an unhappy childhood.
Well, you'll be surprised, Zen. A survey conducted by UK's New Scientist magazine in 2003 threw up the least likely candidate of the happiest people on Earth. And they are from one of the third world countries. Wanna make a wild guess, Zen?
Well, the answer is Nigeria.
Which proves one thing - money can't buy happiness.
Poverty is a vicious cycle. But the child could still feel the love of the parents, who more often than not, give up what little morsel of food they have for the kids.
Back to my childhood? Nay, back to my teenage days. I would like to tweak a few decisions I made in life.
Nigerians are the happiest people without money? Hmm... how then do you explain why most scams originate from their country?
Let's not over analyse, Victor. To make it simpler, let's consider all things being equal. Kids, no matter where they are from, are born full of innocence and goodness. But people get corrupted along the way. Why did most of the scams come from Nigeria? And why are most of the Nigerians poor? Mismanagement by their gahmen? Corruption?
Would you agree that you can be happy without wealth? Note - there's hell of a difference between wealth and money, ok? No wisecrack, Victor. A child can still be happy with a warm home full of love from his parents and siblings, even if they have not much money but live simply.
Let's juz not pinpoint the nigerians. We're not much better either, talking about scams - the renewed NKF saga is one, the conmen who never missed a chance to tell you that you've won a lucky draw despite the fact that you've NEVER entered a lucky draw, much as you tried to recall. Still, some suckers fell for it. LOL.
Well, there's some debate over the way in which the Happiness Index is calculated. If you care enough, go search the net and read more about. Maybe you could come with with a formula that truly measures how happy we can be ....
how come everyone's doing a poem now? @_@
hahaha...... Elaine, are you next?
Chris, my happiness very simple, when are you delivering lunch?
Sabar lah, Jayne. Now not 7th month yet hor. Besides,V is the appetiser. You gotta save the best for last mah.
There is one author who aptly describes money as energy. If it is not circulated around the whole society seems to be immobilised and chaos set in. Imagine when teachers could not get their pays, retailers unable to sell their goods, cinemas without the crowd, CS not paid....and so on. A man suddenly lost his job, with hungry children at home to feed, wife just got pregnant, PUB bills & sundry bills not settled, resulting in gas-water-electricity-phone being cut off etc etc. Can the family be happy? inspite of fact that they are a closely knitted and a loving one.
Money, it's been said, is the root of all evil. I think not. I think MAN is the root of all evil.
Indeed, it's been argued that Singapore enjoy multi-racial harmony because the economy is good, and people here are generally happy and with no lack of money. The poor and the not so rich also get assistance from the gahmen. Let's say one day, we woke up and discovered that our economy is in chaos... job prospects were bleak because investers all pulled out. How long do you think the harmony in our multi-racial society could sustain?
As for the close-knit family who have no money. I've no doubt that happiness for them is elusive. In today's context, it's really difficult for such family to be happy. But there's help from the social services if they are really in dire needs of assistance. In the days of yore, such families grew vegetables and crops for food. They may be poor, but if they're self-sufficient, they can still be happy as a family. Sorry if I've projected a simplistic view of how a poor family could achieve happiness... but that's juz my thoughts...
Chris - I agree with you on your lst para, with a little exception, that is evil men, in particular evil politicians (luckily in the minority), are roots of all evil. Who started the world wars or most wars in general ? with millions killed. The answer is: mainly evil politicians in absolute power. There is a book named 'The Jungle is neutral' which I read years back, describing the fighting between Commonwealth forces and the Communist terrorists in the jungles of Malaya, whereby a lot killing took place on both sides, using the jungles as their battle ground, through which trying to gain advantage on each other. Now can the warring parties blame the jungle for their respective misfortune? This lesson applies to the the usuage of money which is like the jungle -neutral. The culprits are none other than evil men themselves.
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