Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Does there exist a social phenomenon exemplified by adolescent angst more fraught with adult irritation? Children's propensity to view their inner landscape as needful beyond the grasp of parents' realization exhibit a profound sense of self- entitlement guaranteed to be met with perplexed bedevilment.
Surely this emotional affliction besets only offspring of socially emancipated, economically-advanced countries whose children have never experienced deprivation and the compelling drive toward advantage leading inevitably to survival...?
Children who cannot conceive of the desperation of endemic, deadly disease, malnutrition, a stifling of the yet-hopeful human spirit. Little wonder exasperated parents would admonish and remind their own of starving children abroad. Witless young remain fixated on their boredom, not the distant reality of a workhouse.
Perhaps, on reflection, this malaise is in truth a gift of nature's design. Cleverly imposed and engaged to release from the frustration of stasis, the creative genius of a Socrates, a Galileo, a da Vinci, an Einstein. Towering figures of human intelligence and unsurpassed achievement through creative drive.
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