This is their childhood.

(I'm posting this here, but I originally posted it on my other blog, Everything, first.)

I volunteer at a learning center to help them with their administrative work. Mainly it's just paperwork, but the part I love most is getting to go into different classes and just helping and talking with the kids there.
Today, I went into a particular classroom.
One of the kids there, a seven-year old girl, warmed up to me for the first time. She was fascinated by my necklace (a golden pendant attached to a piece of string) and proceeded to laugh at herself and her friend in the reflection. "Hey! I look heart-shaped!"
Usually she's off running with her friends, and as much as I love these kids and try so hard to encourage their creativity, I need to maintain a teacher-student relationship, not a friend-to-friend one. Therefore, the most interaction I usually get with her is: "Okay, come on. Stop running around, you're supposed to be doing your homework! Your parents enrolled you in this because they want you to learn!"
Today, for some reason, they were already settled down when I came in to help, so after she played with my necklace, I decided to sit down with her and talk to her. Rather than talking to a bunch of people at a time, my introvert personality likes getting to know each person I interact with, thoroughly; therefore, I like concentrating on one person and getting to know them better.
She and her friend were colouring in a bunch of Easter eggs on a little scrapbook. I asked them about their Easters, they bragged about their egg hunts and how many eggs they found.
I asked her whether I could help her and draw some decorative Easter eggs for her, and she nodded brightly.
I sat down to draw some Easter eggs and I found myself out of ideas. I had not decorated Easter eggs in years, and when I realized that I hadn't participated in one of my previously favourite activities, in a LONG TIME, I was startled. The seven-year old, who was now working on an art project for the class, noticed and began instructing me.
"Just do whatever you want. Imagine, think. How about a couple of stars, a couple of hearts? What about squiggles like mine here?" She flipped to a page in her scrapbook where a bunch of Easter eggs beamed brilliantly at me.
I nodded and began to draw mine. I could not believe how out of touch I was. How my imagination slipped away, how rather than keeping close with my childhood self, simple art projects such as these made me think hard.
The girl kept encouraging me. "Come on, you can do this! Wow, that's amazing; I like that heart there!" She was at ease with me, and treated me with respect. She was nothing like the defiant, loud girl she was before. She surprised me. Last class, I had thought the closest I could get to calming her down was marching her to her desk and sitting her down.

the beginning

Well, hello there! My name is Jennifer, and I'm a pint-sized girl from Canada.

Having hope to someday major in psychology in university, I have many thoughts and questions that demand answers about life. However, to protect the privacy of others when referring to individual situations, I will talk generally about cases rather than name names or name specific situations. I will also be posting my thoughts about news reports pertaining to specific issues!
I am interested in everything about life. At times, I wish that everything in the world were unified as something tangible, like jelly, so that I could step inside it and let it devour me.

I want to pick up parkour, disassembling/reassembling of cars, fencing, rock-climbing, as hobbies. Every activity possible to learn involves seeing life in a different way, seeing the world in a different light (to use a cliche). Free-running involves consideration of everything around you in context to how you move. It is seeing everything as a challenge and thinking about movement and speed. It's making everything, every object, relative to your route. Each action is premeditated.

Rebuilding cars takes patience and time. I am patient, but rarely towards myself. I hope, by learning about car parts and how they work, I can improve on becoming more accepting to my limitations and find out where exactly I go wrong.
So this is just a little snippet of the topics I'd like to post about in the future!:

• the theory of nature v.s. nurture
• case studies in the news
• the ripple/butterfly effect
• strange phenomena and how they work
• my life philosophies
• Rorshach tests and how they work
• disorders and cases in general

So yeah! Hope you enjoyed reading this, and I hope to continue in posting about my inspirations, thoughts, ideas, etc.!
Thanks for reading, lovelies!