I'm better with kids than I am with adults. I figured that out some time ago. I love being an adult, and I would never want to relive my childhood, but the children, they are so much better than adults. They are themselves before any conforming to a standard of another. Before any change in morals, in opinion, before they are scared that they wont be accepted because they believe in things that shouldn't exist. There are no lies, no ulterior motives, no cheating…unless they are playing video games.
They are not given enough credit in the trust department. Adults think that the kids can't figure out the difference between good and bad people, that they trust anything that offers them candy. I know different, because I didn't forget. They know trust better than probably most adults.
It's really clean cut and simple: they know bad and they know good. If they don't know something is bad, once they experience it they know it and never do it again.
Adults keep doing the bad things, hoping that they are wrong in their feelings, their gut reactions. But they know, underneath everything, that what they are doing is wrong.
It's so completely stupid.
I understand that I do wrong things, but I don't justify them to myself. I may say it out loud, pretending that I do, but never to myself.
See, that's me being an adult, putting on a song and dance so no one will see me. I am the one person I wont lie to; I know who I am.
So do the children, they always seem to know what I am. I am not the monster underneath their beds. I am the man with knife in hand that will protect them, jump into darkness for them.
It's simple. I do good, and the bad things are simply the means to help do the good. The credit cards, the food, the cars, the identities, and the money I steal are stains of wickedness in adults eyes, but I know. They focus on the superficial aspects of my life and call me bad, misguided. But long before they were adults they were children, ones who saw the world in black and white colors. There is good, and there is evil, and yes, the two can coexist together, as they do on Earth, but the actions of one are motivated by one driving force. Good or Evil. I am the good that hunts the evil.
The children see this, and they believe, and they ask, and they wonder, and they help, and they smile. They know themselves to be good, and avoid the bad.
Adults are stupid; I'll never understand how they justify their actions to themselves.
I am better with kids than adults because I know they will see me, and not the stupid shell of weird that adults painted on me. And they will not hide themselves from me.
That and their choices in movies are way better.