When we were younger everything just seemed to have a sense of innocence to it. We were all naïve. In our worlds at the time, Santa and the Easter Bunny existed, magical fairies were real, dandelions were flowers, and we could grow up and be whoever or whatever our heart desired.
But as the years pass and we age, mature, and accumulate knowledge of how the world really is, we come to find it is all just lies made up to comfort and protect our desiring young souls. Realization eventually settles.
Santa and the Easter Bunny are just characters for children to enjoy, fairies only come alive with the imagination from little girls who count on the princess to fall in love with the prince every time, that dandelions are actually just weeds and adults just pretend to be excited about the flimsy bouquet of “flowers” you picked.
And kids clearly cannot grow up to be whatever they want. Some can. But not all. Maybe they don’t have the money or support. Maybe they don’t have someone to believe in them—to believe they can truly succeed.
It is all just lies. Deceiving words spoken to trick us for at least a while as we are vulnerable and young before we grow up to do the same.
