A Page From the Diary of a Child

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” ~Paulo Coelho

At least there are some people who understand us and want to become like us. I am so happy on reading this. Paulo is the name of the writer who wrote this beautiful quote, Paulo Coelho. I wonder, did his mother used to call him Paulo or Coelho? I think Paulo. But Paulo name looks a little tough of a kind. Maybe he was a tough of a kind. How do I know?

Actually, I am so young. How am I supposed to know so much? The world is very very very big. And I am so small. Not just small, I am also young, just a few years old. There’s a boy in our neighbour-hood. He thinks he knows everything. He would be about maybe 15 years old. I am worried, how would I able to know everything when I am 15. For that, I need to start learning things faster, much faster. But how am I supposed to know that he really knows everything or not. Maybe, he was not true. I will ask my mother. I think if you will ask, you will know. If you don’t ask you won’t know.

By the way, I am happy even though, I don’t know much about the world. The writer thinks that I am happy for no reason. Maybe, that’s true or maybe not. Actually, I am happy because…. because… I am writing this. Today, it was very foggy in the morning. I like the smell of the fog. When going to school today, I saw the ground.

Today, I understood how our planet is round. If our planet was round, we should see it going downwards and in front of us just as an ant on the top of a ball sees the ball curving downward in front of him/her (Is the ant him or her. My English teacher says we use it for animals. But I think they are alive and they are he/she and not it.).

Today, when I saw the big playground, in front of our school, I saw it. I saw white fog in front of me. Only a few metres were visible and then, the earth was curving, curving downwards just as ant on a ball sees. Yes, our planet is round. That makes me so happy!

Today, I lost the blue colour pencil from my set. Where would it be lying? Maybe in the playground between the grass where no-one will notice it. How sad. That’s not where a colour pencil is supposed to be. How will the pencil become happy if a child does not draw from it? I don’t know why we can’t use these colour pencils freely.

There’s a drawing book for our class and it contains some pictures. I am supposed to make identical pictures. I think that is not the correct way. If someone makes a good drawing, he has just copied it from the book. He can’t be praised for just copying some work. But it is also not that bad.

There are some good things that we should copy. I think it’s fine because in the exam, there will be two drawings from the book and one will be free drawing. I can draw whatever I want. But I was very disappointed in the test. I drew a balloon in the free drawing. The teacher said that is very simple and easy. You should draw some difficult things. They think that more the drawing is complex, the better it is. But why do they think that balloon is a simple thing? Why don’t they see the complex drawing hidden inside it? Why can’t they see the smile on the child’s face when he will get this balloon?

The winter is coming to an end. I enjoy watching the trunk of a tree narrowing itself in branches, it narrows and narrows and the last twig is so narrow that I can pluck it with my hand. I can, if someone holds me high enough. Obviously, my hand couldn’t reach that high.

When the trees are covered with leaves, I can’t see this beautiful branching. So I like winter. And the trees also like winter, I think. Some of them are cut down by humans to increase the sunlight reaching. The trees don’t complain. They are proud that they suffered and provided us with sunshine. In the spring, flowers will be the piece of attention and at that time, the trees would be healing. They will heal themselves in winter and will provide us shade in the summer. I like trees for this reason.

I think I need to go to sleep. I often think why we need to sleep. There is so much to see in the world. I wonder how people find comfort in sleep. They want to sleep to get some rest. If I would ever need to get rest when I am adult (because I never need rest now), I will read a book or water some plants. I will roam around the trees and watch the complexity of the pattern of clouds in the sky (or the stars in the sky if it’s night). When we are sleeping, we are doing nothing. That’s the most scariest thing I know. We do nothing!

Sometimes, when I play a lot during the day (that is oftentimes not sometimes), I just lay on the bed and I am asleep. And sometimes, I am not asleep that quickly because I need to think about some important things. Why don’t we grow an apple tree in our house yard? My parents say that apple trees don’t grow here. They are saying true. Because I have tried. I saved some seeds from an apple and sow them into the soil and I watered them but the apple tree didn’t grow. Now, I can say I know. How can one believe just because his parents say? One should always try himself before accepting a fact. But now I know that they were right and that makes me happy!