did you ever consider that maybe it meant
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have lost the child. In other words, in accepting the concepts of being grown-up and taking responsibility, you lose the wonderfully clear perspective of innocence and simplicity that leads to truth that only children maintain...
of course you who wants to face that depressing thought...
it might suggest that
everything we think we know is wrong and more specifically, that
becoming a man means becoming the self-destructive suicidal ignorant fear-filled beings that any child can see we are...
oooo, look at the pretty butterfly...
