It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
–Anne Frank–
I've got a little journal that I bought years ago. It's for children, The Aspiring Author's Journal, but despite its target market, I have to say that it's very, very good for adults too. It provides countless prompts (366 to be precise, so not, technically, 'countless' but you know what I mean...) of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Today's exercise is lifted from the journal. What do you think you would have written at six in reply to the prompt's question? What about now? What will you write when you're eighty?
Do you think that human nature is basically good?
At six? I am not sure I would have thought much about it.
Now? In spite of all that goes on in the world, I truly believe that in general, human nature is basically good.
At eighty? I hope to say the same, as I really do not want to become jaded with regard to human nature.
This was such a great post!
Posted by: Lisa | 26 September 2010 at 17:44