I was thinking about a lot of things

From the ride from school to Johnny's house. I was sitting next to Leland, who is a three year old boy produced by Johnny's brother and his wife.

When you're three, you can't see through the whole window. You can't see much over the top of your carseat but the tops of the trees and houses and stoplights. You can see the clouds and the sky. Once you get out of the car you see that the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the pond is brown.

But when you are older than three years old, you begin to see everything else. You see the for sale signs on the abandoned fields next to the developing shopping centers and neighborhoods. I wondered if you could buy a piece of land and plant trees. But you wouldn't gain any monetery value. You would just gain more oxygen.

When you are older than three years old you begin to question why the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the lake is brown. The sky is blue because the color blue is being reflected off the water from the sea. The clouds are white because they reflect the colors of the rainbow. The pond is brown because it is polluted with trash, different liquids, and decayed fishes, turtles, and ducks.

I looked at Leland and imagined myself as him. How nice it would be, to be three years old again.