"Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies"

"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies," - Edna Millay

Those are the words I couldn't get out of my head the other night, and to a point I know why. Last night I was thinking about when I was really little and I would make up another world in my head to escape whatever might have been going on in my life no matter how large or small the problem might have been. And then I was thinking about how much harder it is to do that now that I'm older, how it's harder to retreat into my mind and block out the real world. I contemplated the fact that normally when I wanted to escape it wasn't my own problems it was the problems of people that I meet or my friends because them being upset or hurt makes me feel worse then I think I would feel if it was happening to me. Their pain is my pain.

By this point you are probably thinking that the point of this post was just for me to rant about my feelings and my life. Well you're wrong the first part of this was an overview of sorts to let you see what made me think of the real reason for this post.

The real reason for this post is because that line from the poem made me think so much of the ISF Kids Army. People have said time and time again that the reason we are so amazing and the reason we reach so many people and actually make them listen or change their mind is because we are still in that kingdom of childhood where no one dies. Maybe not in the literal sense but in the sense that we believe in changing the world no matter how small or large that change may be. We believe that we can make a difference and that's why we will.

What makes us different is that we don't listen when people say that an idea won't work or that it's stupid. To us if we can imagine it, it can happen. The word impossilbe isn't in our vocabulary to us if we try hard enough then anything is possible. And believing in what others believe to be impossible is what makes us impossible not to believe. We will change the world and we will be remembered forever!

WE ARE THE KIDS ARMY!

The peom that the quote is from is "Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and this is a link to the full poem:Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies