As the child is born, however, the angel strikes him on the mouth and he forgets all that he has learned and is born a simple and unlearned baby. A lifetime of hard work learning Torah and working on one's personality will constantly release, bring to consciousness, innate wisdom. A sensitive individual will often feel intimations of his or her own deep intuitive level. And that inner sense of inspiration provides the motivation, the source of optimism and confidence that genuine achievement is possible, even assured, if the necessary effort is made. A second application a characteristic feature of childhood, and relatively, of the teenage years, is inspired optimism and the lack of a sense of limitation.
Children believe that they can become anythmg.
However, later in life one is lucky to have any inspiration left at all. But the idea is as we have described above. First comes a phase of unreal positiveness, a charge of energy. And then life challenges one to climb back to real achievement independently. Perhaps the sharpest application of this idea in modern Western society is in marriage.