Photo: monkeybusinessimages (Getty)
Life is tough, I completely get it. But it shouldn’t be tough for a kid at all. Kids should be watching cartoons all day, eating ice cream and making their parents miserable, they shouldn’t be thinking about the awfulness of life. Well, it seems like one student in Bret Turner’s first-grade class is already seeing how shitty the world is.
Turner recently shared the same puzzle of the week that he shared with his class for one reason and one reason only: one of his students’ response. Check out the tweet below:
The first guess from one of my 1st graders was “death” and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the moment pic.twitter.com/7sYFxHNcZk
— Bret Turner (@bretjturner) January 2, 2018
The puzzle reads:
“I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?”
And as you can see one of his kids replied, “death.” Oh man…
Turner also tweeted this:
Before I finally revealed the “correct” answer to the riddle, to a largely unimpressed audience, I fielded other guesses that continued along a similarly existential vein. There was “NOT everything,” “all stuff,” “the end,” and maybe my favorite, “nothingthing.”
— Bret Turner (@bretjturner) January 3, 2018
Man, it sounds like there are just a bunch of little versions of me in that class. Well, Twitter was loving this. Just check out some of the replies:
Should be giving the kid an “E” for effort…
— Avi Greenberger (@iamavig) January 3, 2018
You’ll have to ask the 6 year old nietzche
— Maybe Emma Does The Astro (@AndroidPeach) January 3, 2018
Give that kid the “A” I expect a great screenplay from him/her some day.
— Harrison Smith (@HarrisonSmith85) January 3, 2018
Imagining you saying, “Yes. That is correct. It’s Death.”
— mike fleisch (@mikefleisch) January 3, 2018
You need to stop showing them The Seventh Seal.
— Steven Metz (@steven_metz) January 3, 2018
— Kaleid (@IamKaleid) January 3, 2018
“E” is also for existentialism
— Bobbie Bees (@BobbieBees) January 3, 2018
h/t Someecards
