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I think losing innocence to me, is the growing realization that I am never safe, and that I have to take measures to guard my well being.
When you're a kid, if anything happens, mom and dad fix it. If you have no parents, someone else does, and if you have no one, then you lose your innocence young. There's no grades, no yearly salary increase...you just live and play, etc. But then slowly, as you become an adult, you have to protect yourself. You have to watch out for strangers because they might hurt you. YOU have to do these things. No one else can shelter you.
And because of these experiences we go through, we see the sadness and unhappiness present in the world, and how this manifests itself in the people who populate it.
I become more cynical about the world every day...
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