The Innocence of Life

Ben Shelley
5 min readFeb 4, 2024

How we forget what it is like to be a child

Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash

When you are young, spinning around in a circle is great. You can simply do this for hours with no need to change or alter, simply being happy to spin until you fall.

Once you have finished spinning, you pick yourself back up to start again. It is fantastic and then something happens…you grow up.

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Ben Shelley

Someone who has no idea about where their place is in this world, yet enjoys writing about books, education, entertainment and videogames