The ability to wonder is not lost, though the intensity in the way we wonder is lost."

What I think Albert Knox means by the statement“It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world" is that as we grow up we lose the ability to discover our purpose and about the world around us and although we keep wondering we get lost within what we take for granted in the world and we don’t appreciate the world around us. However, like it says in the novel if a baby could talk it would probably say what an extraordinary world it has come into as it has not experienced the world though a grown up has.

In my opinion the ability to wonder is never lost. As we grow older we just get used to what is around us though this doesn’t mean that we have stopped wondering. But when something is old we are always looking forward for the opportunity to wonder about new things and so as we grow up although we wonder less about things as we are more aware of our surroundings though we never actually stop wondering. I believe that the intensity in which we wonder as we grow older goes downhill though when we reach a certain age it hits its peak once again. As we get older we tend to not wonder about our existence though once we are much older the questions we have are much more philisophical about the world. I think that as we grow up we tend to try and find the purpose to life but the wonder from being a child is completly different from the wonder and excitement from when we were children.

I don’t think wonder is the problem but people are too caught up with their lives in order to wonder about new things and questions such as “why are we here” or “who are we” though no matter how old you are, people are still wondering and searching for those answers and so although Albert Knox says “It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world" I disagree because in the process of growing up people get more curious about philosophical questions such as “Who we are” and “Why we’re here” and this leads to wonder about the world.

I do agree however that as we get older we got lost in the rabbits fur and we dig ourselves a hole but this has nothing to do with the fact that as we grow up we stop wondering because as we grow up we have more commitments and less time to wonder about the world and why we are here (though that is what philosophers do). This was illustrated when Sophie said to her mother “isn’t it astonishing to be alive” and her mother found it quite normal because she probably did not have the time to wonder about everyday existence. The world wouldn’t be what it is today and we wouldn’t be who we are because it is the wondering which takes place, in order to get us somewhere in life and in order to provide us with all the benefits one receives due to the wonder of the inventor.