A television ad shakes us up, “You’ll never find a batch like ours – who never stepped out of the house to study, but did so while watching a father breathe with oxygen support, or a mother slogging invisibly to let the children find a quiet space.”
A friend is visiting, but she warns us that her two-year old is unruly, as he never had the opportunity to mingle with civilization.
I desperately want to ask these kids what freedom means to them. Is it a choice to stay home to watch a cartoon film, or experience the cool breeze and grass under their feet outside?
The trees that grow ‘in situ’ with no space to expand will bear a different fruit. Maybe they invent a different alphabet to write their stories – something like B.1.1.7, P.1, XE and so on.
Reena Saxena 
I love how the prompt word Tree lead to so many stories hinging on thought, truth, as sad as they may be.
Yours be no less thought provoking and truth inquiring!
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Thank you, Spira!
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Another test of the effects of trauma on the very youngest. Let’s hope for resiliency, and keep our eyes open for a new, better way of being.
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Abnormality for sure, if not trauma. Thanks, Liz!
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The dreadful separation of lockdown… magnified. As I sit before my screen now, Reena, you remind me to take a walk around the garden – just for a few minutes.
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With Luna, I presume? Enjoy 🙂
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She has been known to follow me! (Mad Cat Lady) Thanks, Reena 🙂
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🙂
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if one accepts the reality is perception, then how can we, those not raised in a world of pixels and keyboards, know the world as does this younger generation
not judging but, as the Doctrine holds, ‘a worthy goal is to learn to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.
thought-provoking post, as always!
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They have enough time to learn. We are unlearning the world, as we’ve known it in the past.
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So futuristic of what the world is coming to…sad but amazing six!
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Thank you, EMK!
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Yw! 🙂
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Let us hope society never reaches that point!
imo, man is not meant to live completely alone. Even those among us who can “be alone” still need some interaction, if only periodically, with others in order to grow, to be healthy.
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I was just thinking about the word ‘apartment.’ But I prefer a certain degree of apartness. So what you say rings true.
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It makes me glad my children had the creek, the field, and the woods to explore.
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True! Some people moved to their parental homes in the countryside for a certain degree of freedom.
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Reblogged this on NEW BLOG HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Well crafted and thought-provoking!
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Thank you so much!
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Well said, Reena! A thought-provoking piece.
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Thank you, Franci!
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My pleasure!
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Seems like their tree of knowledge is a bonsai.
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Growth does get stunted.
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🙂
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A frightening depiction of the isolation and depersonalisation that are growing in our society. May the trees – and the people – have space to breathe!
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Amen! Thanks, Jenne!
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Thought provoking, especially for those adults who have little or no interaction…
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Interactions teach us a lot more than language. Thanks for dropping by!
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How very insightful, true and sad. Well said!
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Thank you, Ami!
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Interesting concept of babies growing up without outside human interaction
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They knew only their parents for a while – there was no domestic help, no visitors. These babies cried when they saw guests for the first time.
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It’s the same scenario when parents are living by themselves and don’t have many visitors. My own granddaughter was like this when very young
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You are right.
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🙏🏼
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