Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"maybe the world rules itself"

My morning commute conversation with Mathew:

Out of the blue, Mathew asks me "who rules the world? ...is it god?"

I said "some people think it's god."

Then mathew says "maybe the world rules itself!"

Oh, how I loved to hear that. But I was also so surprised to hear such a profound realization come out of my 5-year old son, so I had to ask him, "where did you hear that from?"

He said, "Nowhere, I just thought of it."

...the conversation continued on about presidents, rulers, kings, and such.

I love having these conversations with him!


P.S. some of you may have heard of this story (on facebook), but I had to add to my blog, after all, this is part of my memory bank

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sadly he's right, the world does rule itself and therein lies the problem.

sol said...

I don't see it as a problem AT ALL!
sadly, your views are cynical, whereas my 5-year old has the view of an innocent, not yet poisoned human on this plant!

we should all take pointers from the views of a child!

check out this recent article, case in point: http://parentables.howstuffworks.com/family-matters/6-year-olds-list-thirty-things-i-believe-good-advice-adults.html

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