Essay About Working Class Children And Dark Experience

Blighting Consciousness
This “blighting consciousness” that the working class children are mentioned to have experienced rings something sad in me, because it breaks my heart to think that innocence and the ignorant bliss of a happy childhood unaffected by the cares of the world are just lost forever like that. I wish there was another way. I wish we could keep both the carefree, joyful, free-spirited nature of a child who finds pleasure even in the smallest things and the most trivial of games, with the mature, conscious, enlightened mind of a refined adult able to successfully maneuver himself through the reality of the world. I wish there was a way that these two sides of the human state could develop side by side, sprouting and blossoming alongside each other, instead of having ones development harm and choke the others from existing within the person. It has always broken my heart to see the bright innocence of a child fade away as the dark experience and knowledge of the world would slowly pervade and overpower him, not just for the people of the working class, but for all of humanity. However, I do not know if there is another way. Is there another way? If there were, someone should have figured it out and we probably would not have to be living with this trade-off. But as is the case that we have not found this solution, we therefore can only continue to speculate and lament this loss of innocence with the development of the mind. Although gaining experience may ultimately benefit a person, I still weep that we have to go through an undesirable but inevitable exchange for this of breaking open the once-securely-pure package of innocence called a child and exposing it to its defiled surroundings. I just wish there was another way, but I feel as if wishing it is as impossible and as hopeless as wishing for an apple to fly and fall at the same time. One must give up its force upon an object for the other to take over according to the laws of this world that