'people worry more about raising tomatoes than raising kids around here ...' (line from 'martian kid' - a hollywood movie).
It's an interesting movie played by John Cusack, an interesting guy, and sister Joan Cusack. John Cusack played a widower, David, who adopt an eccentric kid named David - who thinks he's a Martian. Despite what others would think about his decision of adopting an eccentric, he went straight to level 6 of parenthood. He has to handle Andy Warhol aged 7-8 ... can you imagine?
Kids are eccentric, one way or the other. Being a parent, you can easily spot it. Their eccentricity is their uniqueness. The thing that sets them apart from the rest of the world. The thing that makes them special. Some parents cannot handle this, they try hard (sometimes too hard) to smoothen the uneven edges. To make these unique kids fit into the pattern set by society. Just like how their parents did to them.
David did the opposite. He himself is a science fiction novelist, writing about planets and aliens. So, he immersed to Dennis' world and allowed him to be eccentric. Until he got a warning from a government body, the ruler of the society.
Haven't finished the movie while writing this ... half hoping that Dennis is really a Martian so that the ending could be something that I can easily deal with, just like any other Hollywood movies. But, I guess, with John and Joan Cusack together in it, it won't ...
But I learn one thing - so far ... the kids who grow as easy kids, miss all the adventure. the weirdos ... live up to all the adventures their mind can come up with ... for sure, if everything went well, they grow up being geniuses.
I got a friend who is totally eccentric ... draw and wrote all day when she's in Junior High School. When she got to Senior High School, I heard no one really wanted to sit with her, cause she's so strange. But, she turns out to be just ... a genius. Becomes a real writer as a grown up, win several awards for literature. Real example, real hero.
I just hope that I can live up to my kids' eccentricity, so that they can turn into what they truly are. Geniuses ... (and I believe that everyone is a genius, one way or the other).
(for Egi and Lici, both blessed with eccentric kids ... - still cannot decide whether to allow their kids to 'eccentric' or to be perfectly 'normal' and 'acceptable')
