The Power of Wonder

Being a member of the ADD community, my mind tends to jump around a lot. Last night it fell upon The Little Prince, the Antoine de Saint-Exupery novel which I believe is the biggest selling French book in history. I had never read the book; my only experience with it was watching the Japanese cartoon which was imported to the United States on tape. Well last night, I was really in a meh mood when I decided to look in on the book itself. I listened to an audio book version read by Peter Ustinov and I was surprised to discover that the book is very deep. The basic lesson of the book, as far as I can understand is not to let go of the inner child in oneself, in terms of wonder and whimsy, while growing into adulthood.

This brought me back to a person that I have mentioned before on Twitter and Facebook before: Fred Rogers. I can and probably will do a separate blog post on him in the future, but specifically it brought me back to an interview he did with Charlie Rose. The part specifically can be found here at 2:18

And there is that word again: Wonder. That seems to be one of the victims between adulthood and childhood. I hope to think that I've retained some sort of hold on wonder and whimsy (another word that Rogers used a lot), though at times I think it has escaped (cough CHRISTMAS cough). And if I haven't, how do I get it back? How to retain it? I don't know. Maybe you know and you want to comment below. I hope you do anyway, this being my maiden voyage in this blog. All I know is if two separate bastions of childhood are warning of losing wonder, it must dangerous to lose and it can be easily lost. 

Once again, I hope you liked my little musing. Please comment below. Thanks.