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I like kids mostly. They can be annoying...but that is really down to how they are educated by their parents.
I don't like it when kids whine loudly. I don't like it when kids scream when they don't get what they want. I don't like it when kids are violent, particularly to animals. I don't like it when I can see a kid is clearly manipulating their parent and the parent is oblivious.
Otherwise I find kids fascinating. The way you can make a kid's day simply by talking to them about stuff they enjoy. The way they have fun with the smallest of things. The way their faces light up with a grin when they realise you can get on their level and be a big kid yourself. The way they will open up to you for just talking to them for a few minutes. The way they will hug you or smile at you and totally mean it, the love they can transmit to you so unabashedly.
Kids are pretty honest. I like that.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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