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Another child sacrified on the altar of “It’ll Be Good For You.” Another child martyred in the cause of “Some Day You’ll Thank Me.” We have all of us, in our youth, experienced this sort of minor despair. We’re all familiar with the soul-sapping awareness that we are going to be required to spend the next few hours doing something we absolutely do not want to do…and we’ve all suffered from the knowledge that we’ll be expected to not show how much we resent it.
All martyrdom is, in some way, about transformation. Here the child is being gradually transformed into an adult. It is a martyrdom of a thousand cuts, none of which is immediately fatal. In the end, that slow bleeding of innocence will inevitably lead to the death of childhood.
The appalling thing is, it really is for the child’s own good. And very likely the child will some day be thankful for it.
But not on this day.
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