Lessons from a Baby

Babies, not to romanticize them, are the purest beings among our human species. They arrive with only instinctual impulses. They ask for only the most carnal interactions (eat, love, and nurturing). The problem with this is they deal with adults that have long relegated these emotions to second place among material and superficial things. Cars, homes, money, and clothes rival the things that should be first between familial associations.