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The Baby Says

Tom Ball

    Z is a 3-year-old child. Z says he doesn’t want to play any stupid organized games at the dumb nursery school where they assume all 3 year-olds are morons. Z just wants to play with his toys and use his imagination.
    And Z says adults are boring. They seldom smile and seldom have any fun. Why don’t they have fun? Why don’t they use their imagination?
    And Z says he’ll do what he wants when he wants. And he shows how he feels, he doesn’t hide his emotions like adults. He laughs when he’s happy, cries when he’s sad.
    And Z says he likes animals. They don’t lie like humans. His parents always tell him lies. It’s for his own good, they say.
    And Z says you can judge a person easily when they are three years old, but when they grow up, it is far more difficult as they wish to hide their true personality. What kind of world is it when people can’t be themselves, Z wonders.
    Z also says when he grows up he doesn’t want to be like all these fake people. His mother told him being young is to be happy, and he should enjoy his youth. He says I’ll never change myself. I’ll find a way to be who I want.
    But when Z turned 18 he realized that he had become like everyone else. He remembered the vows he made when he was 3 and wrote them off as a child’s silly fancy.



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