"Dont play with knives, theyll cut you" This simple phrase I heard from a mother to her toddler as I cleared off the table behind them. The simplicity of the statement made it all the more apparent to me. Most people wouldnt even have thought twice about what she said, most people would just think that that is just a normal statement, but me, I see a the complexity within it.
Knives can be equated to nearly anything in your life. Dont play with lighters, or guns, or fires theyll all hurt you. Or even more dont play with hearts, itll hurt you. In so many ways this phrase is multi leveled and complex. Everything in your life is set around a basic principal that things in life will hurt you, but its the ways in which we deal with them that shapes us as people. We all need people in our lives, whether new or old, that tell us "Hey you need to watch out for that, youre gunna get hurt". Without them we would all be no where, we would all be broken human beings, even more so than we already are.
So I guess the reason this really caught me by surprise was that something as simple as that is still an issue, that everyone learns things at certain paces, and everyone lives their lives completely different. I could only hope to live my life in a way that I can influence others for the better, that someday I will be able to look at a child of my own and tell them "Hey, dont play with knives, they'll hurt you."
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