I have come across this analogy a million times.
Why does a child laugh out with delight when you throw it in
the air? The answer has always been this—Faith or belief in the person who
throws it in the air. The child has complete faith entrusted on this adult that
he or she will catch him and not let him fall.
Never did this analogy raise any kind of curiosity or doubt
in me..untill yesterday.. Yesterday, I heard it again. I had been in the church
for the usual Sunday mass. On account of walking from home to church, I was a little
late and reached the church only after the Bible reading. It was time for the preaching
and this was one of his stories of the day.
Then I started wondering.. Is it really due to the strong
faith in the adult who throws him up in the air, that the child doesn’t cry,
but laughs out with delight? Or is it because of ignorance? Ignorance of the
fact that if he is not caught in time, he will fall down? Ignorance of the fact
that if he falls down, it will hurt bad?? Ignorance of the feeling of hurt or
pain in itself?
The child is just not conditioned yet that a fall from such
a height could lead to pain. Until you know it, you are fearless. Ignorance
makes you fearless. If the child had an experience of falling from a height and
getting hurt in the process, I don’t think he or she would ever laugh out loud
again when they are thrown in the air to be caught…
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