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Tuesday, November 21, 2006: One childhood; cherish it.
It only comes once, along with all its fairytales, pretty princesses and dashing knights in shining armour, and elves and leprechauns and wizards/witches who try to wreck your plans and turn the tale into the roller-coaster read that it once was.
Who doesn't long to go back to their childhood days? For some, they might choose to revisit their youthful days. That's fine enough. Everyone longs to go back to happy points in time, don't they?
However, when the fairytale is dashed, there is no going back.
Allow me to digress a little bit...
Recently, Berenice updated with a serious post. Its theme word was "image". I think I might want to do something similar, but the theme word is different (though both start with "i").
What do you think of when you think of the word "idyll"? For me, they're such words and phrases as "innocence", "fairytales", "lollipops", "cuteness", "teddy bear" and such.
What would you associate with such things? Or rather, who would you associate with such things? You can name me as many people as you want, but I'm sure they're all children. (I'd be surprised if you can name me an adult whom you can associate with at least three of the above items.)
Red and yellow and
pink and green,
purple and orange and blue;
I can sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow tune.
Yes, the Rainbow Song. I'm pretty sure most kids like it, just as I did.
Once the children find out about the perverse connotations tied to the rainbow, however, I'm not sure what will happen.
I just found out that there is a flag, dyed in six colours, that stands for a not-so-glorious cause. Worse still, the colours on the flag are all bright and merry. I can just imagine a supporter of that cause handing out small portable versions of this flag on the streets.
I can imagine that there would be many children who would want a flag; their parents, knowing what the flag stands for, would drag their children away. The kids would be crying and screaming at their parents for a flag, but their parents would not tell them anything because they wouldn't want their children to know about such things lest they become involved.
I would have to agree with the parents in the above scenario.
In fact, I think the flag I mentioned above could be why the Peace flag has an inverted-rainbow colour scheme.
For me, however, reading about that flag shattered the holy impression I had of rainbows.
So, I'm shattered too, not just the good impression I had of rainbows. Once the idyllic glasses through which kids see the world are broken, there is no going back, and I need time to recover from this new shock.
That's all I have to say about children's idyll.
On another note, the people who support that cause had better get a better symbol, or so I think. (turns to supporters of the cause) Yes, you're ****-*******, and you're proud of that fact. Fine with me; why not just conceal it and live among us like normal people? That is, unless you want to make a spectacle about your support for the cause.
(turning back to readers in general) I'd rather they not shout it out using the rainbow. It wholly defiles the holy symbol that the rainbow was meant to be.
Signing off here.
~Seraphine Chorister~ sang in The Butterfly Garden
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