Random Baby: Year 2012

Random Baby:

Year 2012

    
    Too young to think, you can only expect.  You expect to be fed, to be comforted, to be loved.  It’s right to expect these things.

    But further than that…?

    When I began as a random baby in America, I was taught to expect more.  I expected that things would always get better, that there would be more food, more comfort, more love.

    Now I’m told such expectations are selfish.  Now I’m told to expect scarcer food, character-building hard times and respect – not love.

    Dear Random Baby 2012, I’ll persist in expecting a better world for you.  I’ll do my 

best.

©2012 by L. M. Baumer

image ©2012 by L. M. Baumer

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