over the past couple days i’ve been corresponding with an e-friend of mine across the world about various things on alex’s blog.
i love conversations. i like people to agree with me — perhaps that’s not so rare. i like to be the one with good ideas. i like to be a leader.
i also know i’m young. i know i’m naive, probably in many ways, but i also feel like there’s a passion, a heart that is somehow unexplicably connected to that bright-eyed wonder that i never want to lose.
as usual, my conversations have led me to wonder…
i wonder if one must lose some of that ardor to gain the perspective of wisdom, or if it would be possible to keep it.
i wonder if my wonder is somehow tied to my greenness, like if the opposite of “child” isn’t “adult,” but “cynic.”
even as i write this, it’s almost like i can feel some of my naivete leaving me, and the road-weary doubt and cynicsm, its inevitable, if not rightful, heir, creeping in.
to be honest, my conversations have been very upbeat, positive, helpful, interesting. just wanted to write this thought down before i forgot it. 
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