What Will Each Child Become?

(October, 18, Geneva, Sri Lanka Guardian) Friends, this charming photograph shows a cute human baby. It captures all its fragility, its adorable loveliness, its beautiful potential.

In a matter of years, each baby will become an adult, one totally unrecognizable from its baby photos. It will take its place in the world, pursue a career, have relationships and probably marry someone of the opposite gender and the procreation cycle will begin again. Its life, generally speaking, will probably be spent either in the service of others or in advantaging itself or engaging in wickedness. Remember that Bush, Saddam, Gore,Che, Mahatma Gandhi , Mandela Mother Teresa, Hitler, Howard, Pol Pot, Idi Amine, Cheney, etc, were all cute babies once (some more cute than others)!

What never ceases to amaze me is that all humans began their lives in exactly the same way (though their circumstances do vary greatly). Every human was once a dependent baby, one whose mind contained no animus, no desire to injure or kill others, no lust to rape or molest or to be sexually deviant, no drive to dominate others or to feel superior to them, no wish to accumulate a fortune they can never spend while others starve, no capacity to believe in discriminatory, elitist religious fantasies...

If only we could keep all babies from becoming contaminated by the world as well as negate their potential base instincts...

If only!