It's Funny Being a Kid

It's funny being a kid-- for one thing, you can never see eye-to-eye with the grown-ups, and not just cause they're taller-- no, it's how they think, in that strange way, what with all their secrets and sneaky looks at one another.... But kids are honest, kids are real. They all live only in the present, the here and now, but still are magically, wondrously unconstrained by place or time or size: so they can be pirates on the high seas one day, or brave cavalry charging savage foes the next, or maybe happy cowboys and cowgirls home on the range under a vast and comforting blue sky. Kids leave it to the adults to make a bomb that is real, to kill or maim, to wage wars that rubble cities and wreck nations.... Oh, if only kids could always live in that World of Imagination, and never become grown-ups!