For Sonya’s Three Line Tales prompt.
photo by Michal Vrba via Unsplash
There is something about the sight of children absorbed in a tactical game of skill, wits and intelligence that gives me the creeps.
I imagine them later, older, sitting together again, but this time around a conference table in a boardroom.
Older, the tactics refined and put to other uses, children who never acted the maggot at school plot with cold, dispassionate moves the fate of millions.
Scary, huh? It makes you wonder what will become of them.
They’re tomorrow’s leaders. It’s what will become of the rest of us that worries me.
We’re doomed already.
Certainly looks that way.
Scary indeed. They know that we know. We know they know we’re hapless. Or helpless.
There’s so little compassion in those eyes, so adult. It seems perverse.
Losing innocence of childhood as we age is a bitter reality,
isn’t it?
Scary but powerful lines Jane.
And some people never have that childhood innocence to look back on. It’s something they never had. Yes, scary.
Most of these later managers are prepared very early in school. Or, say, all the others are separated, beforehand.
In my opinion, nothing has changed for generations.
Producing élites.
So true, and here producing hillbillies. Lol
🙂
❤️
Viewed like that it gives me the shivers 💜
I don’t like the way the kid on the left is looking at the other one, and I don’t like the way the one on the right is looking at the game.
It very scary, I see it too!
They are our next presidents of big corporations.
That’s a sobering thought!
One reason I don’t automatically think all children are adorable.
Yes some are monsters in waiting 💜
All monsters were children once…
Yes that’s the truth