Meet Oscar, aka Oscar-La aka La-Boy.

Oscar is one of the major factors that has got me thinking about so many things of late. The most interesting thing Oscar has brought into my life is the simple marvel of a 2 year old. It’s an uninhibited amazement of the world around him, every thing’s new, fresh, wonderful.

While I know why we loose it, I have been wondering why we let ourselves, especially every time he’s around. On the trip up north recently we ended up being stuck at a lot of road works. Big machines doing big things. For once I just sat and watched them do their thing. Sure I know how and why these things work and if I chose to look at them through those eyes, all I would have been was annoyed about being stuck in traffic. Instead, I just watched, like Oscar would. And you know what? They are wonderful and amazing, these big yellow machines scooping up the earth. Very, very cool. I became transfixed and was actually annoyed we had to get going and leave them behind.

It then occured to me that true genius’ are like children (and I am so not a genius) - everything amazes them and they have an unquenchable thirst to understand. They manage never to loose the simple wonderment of a 2 year old. Einstein was reportedly like that.

I learn a lot from Oscar.

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