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So this is really only one problem right now, but the title sounded better. I'm sitting here watching The Polar Express and they're singing and talking about believing in things and how only seeing is believing. I'm sitting here FILLED with questions. For insatance, let's take a look into my mind for a second and see what's there shall we?

So is seeing really believing? Or are the most real things in life the things we can't see? If we don't hear the jingle bell jingle, have we really lost our childhood beliefs? Does the true spirit of anything really lie in our hearts. And when we lose those beliefs, we lose the spirit, thus losing parts of our hearts right? What happens when we run out of heart to lose? Can we start believing in things again, giving us the spirit back and rebuilding our hearts again?

Does this theory go for all things, or is it just for things we have to believe in? And those things we have to believe in, do they go for normal things like believing in ourselves, or is it just for the childhood wonders we grew up and then gave up?

The tooth fairy, for example. When we run out of teeth, does that mean we run out of belief in that? And Santa Clause too. When do we justify whether or not he's a myth? There's some pretty traumatizing things out there that could persuade a person to not believe, but does that mean we stop believing?

Is there ever a true time where we have to grow up and not believe in anything but work, money, family, eating, and sleeping? Do we absolutely HAVE to leave Never Never Land? Or do we just assume that it's time to leave and kick ourselves out of Never Never Land?

Wouldn't it be nice to just be a lost boy forever, never growing up? You can have your responsibilities, but with responsibilities does it mean giving up belief and faith in magic from the world?

And what about in The Little Prince? At the begininng, it wasn't a hat. It was a snake eating an elephant. I understood what it was. But a lot of people thought it was a hat. And throughout the book, those people who were only intrested in 'adult' things and only saw a hat. And the end [I won't tell you what happened] I mean, c'mon! Even though he was old he knew! The pilot and the prince were the only people who knew.

So what are we when we're young, the pilot and prince? And as we grow up, do we become the drunkard, accountant, mapmaker, etc..?

What do we do with al that lost belief?

I guess the world just makes you grow up too quickly so you give everything up.