George Bernard Shaw once said…. “Youth is wasted on the young.”

Now,  I don’t like to argue with folks much.  Not at all.  But, if Mr. Shaw were around… I would have to question him on this one.

Anyone who has known the wonder, the innocence, the trust and the joy of a child…. would argue this one too.

It is with our “wisdom of age” that so many of us…. lose the magic.

We forget how to play.  We won’t let ourselves fall face first into a pile of raked leaves.  Our jacks are in the trunks of our car… and not with our marbles on the playground.

We tweet with our fingers on our cell phones.  We used to tweet toward the tree limbs above…. at the sight of a song bird.

We quit coloring in coloring books…. or writing with chalk on the sidewalk.  We quit believing in Superheros.

No.  Youth is not wasted on the young…. I don’t think.

Some of us have wasted  it away ourselves…. no matter the age.

Sometimes… we should just take the time to splash in the puddles during a downpour.  And eat peanut butter right out of the jar.

And as far as Shaw goes.. I am not quite sure about that guy…..
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”  – Bernard Shaw

Now… Fairy Dust, Houdini, Aquaman… and Goethe….  are more up my alley.

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe