Response to Assignment 1

Do we really lose the ability to wonder about the world? I honestly never asked myself that before. Probably because I’m so used to these daily routines of waking up, going to school, coming back from school, completing homework, and going to sleep again, that I may already be in the rabbits fur.

But I do not fully agree that we can ‘lose the ability to wonder’. Even though as we grow older we do wonder less about who we are and ‘where does the world come from’, we don’t abandon this subject. We wonder less because these questions start to become old and we take in the truth that no one will answer these questions and that it is better to leave them unanswered. It may be true that children have a better ability to wonder about the world as they have very few past experiences and that they don’t know ‘what you can and cannot do in this world’. Children are free to roam around and wonder about things as the society does not have expectations for them yet. Adults, however, having experienced this world for quite some time has already adapted to the social norms in which have left less space for them to wonder (they have to perform these daily routines of going to work in order to earn money and keep their normal lives that they were forced to push their wonders away).

Although I vaguely remember my past of being a primary 2 student, I do remember asking my parents why we are different from other species of animals and are unable to communicate with them. They never really completely answered my questions, only telling me that we are different because we have a different appearance and body structure and that we have a different language. But why do they have a different language? We all live in the same world; certainly there have to be a way for us to communicate with each other. Even if they do have a different language we can still try to learn and understand them right? Human being have different language across the world and we still communicate fine (we just have to learn each other’s language). However as I grew older I started accepting the truth that dogs can only bark and cats can only purr and that we can not understand what they are trying to say (we can only assume what they mean). Why? Because there are other things that I have to do than to wonder about questions that have no answers. I believe that we don’t lose our ability to wonder but we do have less time and less things to wonder about as we get older.