Thursday, December 17, 2009

Alphabet Soup

Do you ever stop and think about how you used to see the world when you were younger. Today I was taking my final and as I was looking at the letters to the options on the scan-tron, I started to think about what I remembered the letters as before I even knew what they really meant. In preschool they had one of those large banners along the wall that had every letter both capitalized and in lower case right next to each other. As I looked at those letters everyday, four in particular started to attract my attention, the letters Bb and Dd. For some reason I always felt sorry for the big and small letter 'D' because they always seemed (to my for year old year old brain) like they were father and son fighting over something, and both of the letter 'B's' seemed to be working so well together. It would mildly depress me to the point that I would even come up with reasons for why the 'D's' were having so many problems. So sad. Now whenever I look at one of those letter strips, I see what I saw then first, but then I see it as the 'B's' that are having the real problem. The 'D's' are the ones who are looking each other in the eye and hugging each other, while the 'B's' on the other hand, are just going single file with no sign of caring one way or the other. I like how I see it now better then how I saw the letters then. I can finally eat alphabet soup without wondering about who made who mad, if that makes any rational sense at all. (Lol)

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