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THE BEST TIME: EARLY CHILDHOODhttp://images.koolearn.com/casupload/upload/fckeditorUpload/2011-11-29/image/e05dea021d584487a78a10e3c7cb0d96.jpg
For Ann Wroe, life is best when the world is simple, new and there to be discovered ...
From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, November/December 2011
I’d choose to live in very early childhood, just at the beginning ofdiscernment. There’s no time there, beyond the eternal rhythm set bymeals at the breast and the oblivion of sleep, which comes as gently andimmediately as the closing of an eye; there’s no place there, beyondone patch of sunlit grass, one fold of blanket, and the whole enormousworld laid out for exploring.
In this time and place, poetstell us, dreams and waking are the same; we move easily from one to theother. We may still keep, as Wordsworth supposed, intimations of someante-natal life, and know why we home like bees towards the song of abird or the sparkle of sunbeams on water. With our small hands, webelieve that everything can be grasped; with our small, soft mouths wetry to eat it all, assuming everything we find will be sweet and rich asmilk.
No one makes demands on us, and the world revolveseffortlessly round no one but ourselves. Our griefs are soothed andforgotten almost before the tears fall. We are carried if we want to be,in hugging arms, but we can pull ourselves up, reach things, and creepaway from where we’re put: every day more confident, stronger,keener-eyed. Slowly, like a shell, the world opens and light floods in.Any day now, we’ll stand to meet it.
Everything is new,unnamed, important, and belongs to us. A stone is new, and a blade ofgrass. We see their potential as unlimited, like our own. We make timefor it. A puddle astonishes us. A piece of paper, blown by the wind,becomes a playmate, and the night-time tree a ragged monster. Coleridgeonce took his crying baby son out of the house to show him the moon; themoon silenced him, shining on his tears. It is good to be silenced bybeauty. Too briefly we stay there. But infancy makes of everywhere thebest time and the best place.
Ann Wroe is the obituarieseditor of The Economist and author of "Orpheus: The Song of Life" and"Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself".
What do youthink is the best time and place to be alive? Read Arkady Ostrovsky onpre-revolutionary Russia; Robert Guest on Heian-era Japan; Lucy Kellawayon America c.15,000BC; J.M. Ledgard on Princeton in 1949; and PatrickDillon on London in the 1690s. Have your say by voting in our onlinepoll.
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