Wisdom of the Jaded Father

My biggest hope is that you never grow up to learn the truth in life. That you never learn that nothing in this life is real. That nothing in this life is trustworthy. That nothing is forever and nothing will ever truly care. They say ignorance is bliss and son, that's the best way to live. Don't search too hard because one day you might find it. Don't waste your time looking. The disappointment of never knowing is truly far less than the disappointment of knowing. 

If only I could turn back time and live that moment once more, that moment right before I learned. Oh how I would savor it like the last drop of honey tea on a cool November evening. It would be like the fresh breeze coming off a field of overgrown daisies; sweet, refreshing and fleeting. That moment is precious I tell you. More valuable than you could know. It is the instant that life goes from all things good to pain and discontent. Those last few seconds before you learn are the freest you'll ever be again. It'll be the last time you'll ever smile of genuine happiness rather than happiness in-spite of. The last moments before you begin a life of buts, ands, ors, what-abouts, how's bouts, and then agains. It is the last moment of your youth. 

I hope, truly hope you never grow up to learn the truth.