"Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.
" Is an abstract of a poem about a child's innocence and his/her childlike nature.
Children are like a mirror or more like a transparent glass, where one can see through their emotions, feelings and thoughts so clear and so very evidently.
When the child learns to comprehend and understand the world around him/her and expresses with the purest of intentions.
Especially at times of crises and agony, a child can never conceal the response to the situation.
But over time as s/he adapts to the way of the world based on the observation or instruction of an adult that 'one doesn't necessarily need to show one's emotions to the outside world'.
This mostly leaves the child petrified and baffled as it seems to be un-natural and not logical to show what one feels.
These genuine emotions are more often corrected by the adults and always shunned.
When adults, implicitly or explicitly, define children's emotional states of being from their own (adults) perspective, they risk ignoring, minimizing, distorting, or denying children's emotions.
This is unacceptable.
It frequently sabotages the innocence of the child that would be lost forever.
Wearing the mask is something like being trapped into oneself in a complicated way.
It is left to us to decide what we want our future generation to be; masked or innocently true?