natural curiosity

Children have a natural curiosity on nature.

They wonder tirelessly those things we "adults" often keep self-evident. My daughter, who is now 5 years old, is a keen birdwatcher. She collects nowadays every feather (no matter how dirty or small) she finds from a street or from a forest and keeps these treasures in a 'jewel box' in her room.

For different reasons, this capacity to wonder small things often diminishes when a human "grows up". I often think for different reasons why this happens. On the basis of what I've learnt recently (partly after reading some writings on Jungian psychology), mostly this differentiation from the wonders of our Mother Earth could be due to the overgrown egocentrity of a modern human mind. The products of industrialised society we have created, pull us like magnets to consume and to take advantage on short-lived enjoyments. We detach from surrounding natural universe and block within our self. Well, I guess everyone recognizes some of this occassionally in our own personal behaviour.

Don't let your consumer-ego take over, the birdwatcher's still hidden within every one of us.:)