A Kid

Have ever thought that when you were still a kid, you’d be wishing a lot of things?  Simple thoughts that you hoped you had them cotton candies, gummy bears, riding in a bump car or play on monkey bars.  A kid’s mind would be as simple as wanting them.  No complications, no extraordinary necessities.  A kid who has been showered by the love of parents and people around him.

But how about those barefoot kids walking along the street sides?  How about those sleeping along the open parks?  A kid who wakes up early in the morning to fish for something, give it to his mother and cook it for his siblings.  What are their hopes and dreams?  Do they still wish for cotton candies and ferries wheel?  Do they still want to ride on bump cars and play on monkey bars?  Are their dreams bear no complications and extraordinary necessities?

These kids would have the simplest hopes in their lives.  A dream to live in the norms that an ordinary kid should have.  A kid who wears clean set of uniform and carries school bag instead of putting on ragged clothes and brings fish net.  A kid who holds pencil and draws his portrait of a happy family, instead of tending in the flea market to help his sick mother.  A kid that eats ice cream and plays with his siblings in the park, instead of eating left over food from fast food chain and brings home some of them to his hungry young sister.

What an awful scenario it is to see this kind of life.  Others have the luxury to spend the hard-earned money of their parents while others do not have enough for their families.  The kid has settled his mind on the simplicity of their living.  This is his anticipated normalcy of life.  From this standards, he begins to wish for something bigger and better.  

He begins to hope for complexity of his existence.  A dream of a life free from deprivation on everything.  A wish that will let his family experience more than what they call their “standard of living.”  A wish to eat three times a day, rather than just two meals a day.  A wish to hold pen and textbooks rather than carrying a sack of corn.  A wish to finish school and have a job that will help his family.

Lucky for others, they can be able to live a luxurious life.  But when will they realize the importance of everything they have right now?  Everyone should be aware of the true essence on living a life before it’s all gone.  Everything is indispensable, we should not take it forgranted.

This is a kid’s wishful thinking…