"My body structure will enlarge, my muscles will develop and my endocrine system will activate, then I will reach sexual maturity. Some years later I will be old, my system is going to crash, ending with my dead"

"How funny, where did you learned those words? I mean, what do you want to do when you grow up?"

"Well, I will take you want to know my professional diecision at this stage, which is kind of stupid. But to be honest I don't know, I am not able to see the future and the uncertainty is too great to do any educated guesses" the child said

"Oh come on Henry, don't be shy. C'ommon class, let's all encourage HEnry to tell us" she said, talking to a large group of 6 year olds.

Come on Henry! was heard in all sorts of voices, all too high to be audible.

"There is no point on telling a random answer, if I clearly know I'm lying" he said

"Well, what would you want to do?" said the smiling woman

"I don't really have desiers" he said

"Oh Henry, don't be that way, we all have wishes!" she said

"I find wishing a waste of time, there is no way you can know if you are going to succeed, so if you don't attach to an idea, you don't get disappointed, or frustrated. So instead, take things as they come" he said

"Well, isn't that a bit stoic now? Oh sorry, you must not know that word." she said, trying to be funny.

"Oh, well, it turns out I do. But isn't trying to fix to an idea of a destiny and an invariable outcome  more stoic, and at the same time stupid, knowing is just all so multivariable and possible to fail?" said the 6-year-old

"It's nap time"

[“It’s a miracle that curiosity survives formal education”(Albert Einstein).]

by I'm the penguin