Children swarming. The exhibit they see excites their senses. There's pushing and shoving to be the first one to see each amazing exhibit. They are in awe and what they see. A gigantic bear. Real! But stuffed… but that’s okay it still used to be real. The emotions that run through their heads are extreme. The thrill of being somewhere out side of the classroom during school hours. The nervousness of this huge creature and how it used to be able to kill little children like them. The hot breath on my neck from my classmates behind me. Seeing something I have never seem before.
Children have such a different mind set than adults do. They are way more open an have twice the size of imagination. They may look at this exhibit and think of a story they just read or they may leave and at recess the next day role play the part of the bear and turn it into a story of their own. Where adults look at this bear with knowledge. They see the history behind it and don’t trust it. They know exactly where the bear has been and where it would have gone if it hadn't been killed when it did. Some may feel remorse for having killed a living creature while others may feel relieved by it because they are now out of danger. But the point is that adults think about these exhibits completely differently than children do. Their imaginations done roam… they merely think of the facts. That’s all the imagination we have now that we have gone through the educational system. Though we still have some what of an imagination, it is sort of… how would you say it….. “cut short”.
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