I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the