Into the heart of a child, I stay awhile…
I will grant that the members (or at least the songwriters) of U2 were young when this album was written and released but they sure are obsessing a lot about being young. I suppose we all are, in a way, no matter our age. The song Twilight spoke about this subject as well.
There are benefits to being an adult of course. You can stay up late or get up early. You can pretty much do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it (that is until you get married and / or have children). While I still have my health, I think I prefer adulthood. You can still act childlike if you wish. Even though Paul said…
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11)I still think he might have taken out his childish things (from wherever it was that he had put them) and played with them every once in a while.
I was chatting with a co-worker in Bangalore, India, yesterday. I shared some pictures of myself and he was amazed that I was 41 (well, almost 42 now). I told him of my mirror and how it is a liar. It does not tell the truth about the age I am in my heart (somewhere around 14 I think). Sometimes I allow myself the pleasure of acting my “heart” age. Sometimes I can go into the inner child, sometimes I cannot. I think I like this song. I can relate to it. Perhaps, like U2 at this point in their lives, I still obsess about being young even though I don’t admit it.
Jon
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