You live in a dark environment to start with
When you're ready
You started clear as a newly tinted window
You were exposed to things you have not seen before in the past
You were learning as you age
You started to get hold of particular scenes of life
Your parents have been putting up the blinds for you
Depending on their social backgrounds
For the things they assumed they weren't ready to see at your age
For the things they thought were heartbreaking for your vision
For the things they wished they have not seen in the past
But sometimes curiosity is a strong will power
To unfold the things you assumed you were ready to see at your age
To uncover the things you thought weren't all that heartbreaking for your vision
To find out the things your parents wished they have not seen in the past
But in the end
Curiosity became the blamer for most of your undesired visions
But with that
A growth is experienced
Adulthood is gradually achieved
Although deep down inside
We as adults would have tamed our curious inner child
Sometimes
with the hardship and complexity of adulthood
you would have wished that
You've never been curious at all
As we return home after a challenging day
All we yearn for
Is to shut the curtains
To our spaces
Externally and internally
And enter the world
where consciousness state is minimal
2013.1.29
Hoi-Mun Tang
