the silent talk.

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Monday, September 18, 2006

7:33 PM

Something can be staring you in the face...
(a story ive read: living and learning)

when i was ten, my most prized possession was my football - i ate with it, slept with it and i polished it weekly.. instead of my shoes. i knew all about football - but n some other things, like where babies came from, i was a little hazy.

one afternoon i was playing in the street and i lost my precious football. i looked everywhere. i figured someone had stolen it.

eventually i spotted a woman who seemed to be hiding it under her jacket. so i marched up and asked, "what do you think you're doing with my football stuck up your shirt?"

it turned out that she didnt have my football.. but that afternoon i learned where babies come from - and what a woman looks like when she is nine months pregnant.

later that day, i also found my ball.

what fascinated me most of all, was why, before the age of ten, i had never noticed a pregnant woman.. and why, from then onward, i seemed to be surrounded by them.

we reach points in our life when we are ready for new information. until then, something can be staring at us in the face but we dont see it.