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Re: Re: C_C_T
I must amend my answer. A happy childhood is a good foundation for the future. We each must then seek our own paths toward that future's happiness and success. There are contrasts though, from the child's eye to the adult's world.
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Sea_Gypsy
on January 23, 2016 at 1:45 AM
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Re: Kristles
Thank you for your thoughts. It will stay up for now then. I feel childhood is a time to instill a sense of security and wonder, for as you say, those things are part of the foundation for a positive outlook as an adult, in my opinion.
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Sea_Gypsy
on January 23, 2016 at 1:32 AM
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RP
Good poem and I'd hate to see you delete because I think it's one that makes folks think and that's what good ones do. I appreciate your footnotes and wish others who write these 'deeper' poems wold do the same, at least occasionally, because it offers interesting insight. As to your feelings about a happy childhood preparing one for life, I think the opposite is true...I had one pretty much like you describe and feel it gave me confidence and a positive attitude and those have helped me more than anything, no matter what curves came.
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Krisles
on January 22, 2016 at 11:00 PM
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Re:Nautikos
No, it isn't that terrible at all; I emerged just fine! I tend to wander toward the melodramatic at times! I almost deleted this one. Still might.
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Sea_Gypsy
on January 22, 2016 at 9:37 PM
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RP
Childhoods are never about futures - if they are joyful, they are lived in an almost 'pure present', extending beyond the tomorrow only occasionally, when something is eagerly awaited...But is the future into which we emerge in the end that terrible? I'm sure most of ours aren't...
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Nautikos
on January 22, 2016 at 8:06 PM
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Re: C_C_T
That was exactly the point of the poem; it does not prepare one for the future!
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Sea_Gypsy
on January 22, 2016 at 10:51 AM
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Ii is nice that you made a footnote. I don't know if a nice childhood prepares one for the future. At least it must make a part of ones life assessable. I guess there are always places that one does not want to revisit. Sadly they are never far away. 
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C_C_T
on January 22, 2016 at 10:09 AM
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You truly have a way with imagery.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 22, 2016 at 5:00 AM
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