Why Childhood Is Important

Childhood is a precious thing that each of us treasure because it developed who we are today. Childhood is the key to the future, even the slightest change would have made a huge difference in who we are right now. Our lives are made with the expectation that no bad influence will take any effect. However, we are only human, making it harder to find out about ourselves, who we are supposed to become, and to find our purpose. A tragedy can either build us up and become stronger or bring us down and make us corrupted, never being able to look past what happened and not seeing a way to look into the future for change. Depending on how old the child was at the time of the event, the stress level they were under, and how their role models reacted …show more content…
Stress can be a good thing if it is a category called acute stress. Acute stress is more commonly known by the “fight or flight” response which is there to help us stay alive in a dangerous situation. Adrenaline is released that makes our body go into “superhero mode” where we are able to do things that normally we would not have the ability to do, even if we wanted to. Achilles tendon is most needed to be able to walk with that leg if cut one would be in serious pain and vulnerable in their surroundings. In that kind of state, adrenaline will rush into the body, making it to where one would have enough strength and ability to still be able to walk on that leg without it excruciatingly painful, but only for a short enough time to be able to get them to safety. Then there is chronic stress, which can be a life or death situation if not fixed immediately. Chronic stress is the opposite of acute, acute only lasts hours, maybe even a few days, whereas chronic lasts months to even years. In this state brain cells will not be remade due to the high stress level the body is under causing the brain cells to die and even commit suicide. Without brain cells being replaced brain damage occurs, leaving the person with early stages of Alzheimer’s and affect how emotionally intact one will …show more content…
As someone watching the film the audience will automatically feel empathy for the little boy wishing that never happened to him, and at such a young age at that. A child at such a young age would be confused and scared not knowing why all this was happening, but only knowing something bad happened to his parents and not knowing if he will ever see them smile down at him again. This is the same for Wes, in the book The Other Wes Moore, Wes watch his father fall down the staircase from a heart attack in his house and tried to wake his father up. One would expect that he was startled when a bunch of people started running through his house and taking his father to the hospital and neighbors coming