This happened on Saturday evening. I was at my grandma house and my 2 cousins (aged 7 and 5) were playing fake badminton (fake because, it's that toys kind) in the backyard and the shuttlecock got stuck on top of the aircon unit, which was fixed at about 2 stories' high.

So i was called by my 7-year-old cousin (yah the one who got "bullied" here HAHA) to help, and i stood there and looked up and said,
Me: Cannot lah... Cannot take already...
Zhixian: Can, you try!
Me: Cannot lah...
Zhixian: *angrily* You never even try then you say cannot!

Whoa.

I think there's a lesson to be learnt here. When was the last time you told yourself "...cannot" and thus gave up and opportunity slipped through? Not that mind-over-matter works everytime for everything, but for most things and most times, it does. Funny how we get more puerile and less sensible with age. After bumbling around, going through the grindhouse of 12 years of education, i have really become a meathead.

And suddenly i am struck by the simple straightforward commonsense of a 7-year-old. It was an epiphanous moment for me, but i am quite sure she will have absolutely no recollection of it.

Then i wonder if i've ever sprouted any sagely wisdom in my younger youth and if i did, why did i end up like this now!?

Anyway ok going back to the actual situation then - to justify my seemingly-un-helpfulness, it was really impossible to reach it from the 1st level. Maybe we could have tried reaching it from the 2nd level out of my uncle's room's window... Hm. But we didnt and the kids forgot about it eventually.

Adulthood is stupefying. AAaaAaaAAaAaaAaAAaaAAaaAaaHHHhHHhHHh.

Evidently.