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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527441" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I Was A Child I Believed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a child <br>a very young child <br>I looked at the world<br> <br>of adults in discussion<br>their patterns of interaction <br>their comments reactions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a very strange world<br>differences between what adults said <br>and what child were told </div><div style="margin:10px 0">their masks worn <br>and I thought about what <br>they did and why? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Questions were asked <br>about what you wanted <br>to be when you grew up? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The work question was important, <br>but never asked was how well you <br>would do this work, and for who? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were often silent or suddenly angry<br>‘children were to be seen but not heard’ <br>the news to be listened to in serious silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First talk repeat their sounds <br>to smiles laughter<br>then don’t talk be silent listen? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">First stand walk walk how far <br>then don’t walk stay wait <br>where your told don’t go away? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When adults met sometimes they would<br>start to talk a lot fast all at once not one <br>at a time and laugh a lot talk walk funny? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why not be on their best behaviour <br>nice to others as they told children to be? <br>Why not choose to be good not bad? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Years later I would smile a lot why not <br>it costs nothing to smile and often others. <br>Would catch your smile and smile also? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even when sad smiling was a good thing to do <br>to appreciate all you have been given. <br>Even though you could not always play with </div><div style="margin:10px 0">what was given or go outside or play with friends. <br>Especially on those boring rainy days.<br>So many games were not allowed if you got dirty? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a teenager smilie would be a nick name. <br>That smile given freely to people who needed <br>to smile but chose to be miserable instead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It never cost anything to be nice to people either! <br>To give to help had its own record, it felt good! <br>Happy people are the nice people to be around! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I believed happiness was the most precious gift, <br>a person could give another, and if sad then to give, <br>happiness you did not have; was even more important.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once in my early twenties I was surprised, <br>a friend said you cannot be that good, <br>no one is that good, but I knew I was not good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At twenty-two when about to travel overseas, <br>my uncle said you think everyone is your friend, <br>be careful, everyone you meet; is not your friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I am older and sadly wiser, <br>yet I still know that to treat a stranger, <br>as a friend not a treat is still better.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That to say hello with a smile, <br>and wish people well, <br>is still a wonderful thing to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I still believe it is a better thing to do. <br>And when kindness is meet with hostility? <br>I feel pity for the hurt who choose to hurt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not the right way.<br>It is not God’s way.<br>It is still not my way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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a very young child 
I looked at the world
 
of adults in discussion
their patterns of interaction 
their comments reactions

a very strange world
differences between what adults said 
and what child were told 

their masks worn..."></div>
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