As we rush thought our hectic days, many of use are so busy being 'grown ups' taking responsibility and fulfilling obligations that we forget there is still a part of us that is essential to our well-being and happiness...the child within! It is my belief that child deserves to be, and should be, acknowledged in order to maintain a healthy balance in our day-to-day lives and also to remind ourselves of the fun and joy that exists in each one of us.
I was watching a group of kids the other day, while waiting for my food at Zuwadeh, and I realised that kids just run around...they don't seem to have a purpose to what they doing...they just run...till they get tired then they stop...take a few breaths...and off they go again...I mean do you get it, they just ran. Not for reason, not because they were trying to loose weight, nor because they were playing a game...nope they did it because they wanted to. As I have grown up I realise that I do less and less things because I just felt like it. I remember when I was a kid and my dad would ask me what are you doing? Or why are you doing that? My answer was also: Mazaj!!! How great is that, to do something not because you are bored, or that you have to, or that you want to, but only because you felt like it...or even better for no apparent reason whatsoever.
I am a true believer in nurturing the child within. My friend wrote me an email today telling me how she gets all excited about slightly childish things, like going to the aquarium to see sharks, watching murder mysteries, playing silly board games...and I was thinking about it, when it comes to this one friend in particular that is one of the things that I most love about her. We do stuff together and its like watching little children...you know how kids get when they first walk into a place, or do something for the first time...the look of amazement and pure disbelief I find to be one of the most beautiful things in the world. I decided quite awhile ago that I would also try and keep that child within me alive, there are chocolates that I eat only because I used to love them when I was a kid-milky way-and I buy the Kinder egg, not so much to eat the chocolate, but to put the toy together, and I keep the ones that I love...and also now collecting sets of them-if you haven't noticed some come in sets of threes-I get so disappointed when it turns out to be one that I have done before, or that it is one that do not need to be put together-that is when I eat the chocolate!!!!
I also love swimming like a mermaid-you know what I mean-love to see how long I can hold my breath under water, and if I can reach the bottom of the pool at the deep end-and of course you have to be competing with someone for this to really nurture the child within!
But seriously, I think everyone should do stuff like that...remember things that they used to love to do as kids, and work on them again...it will really make you enjoy life that little bit more.
Many times I've caught myself at a standstill just wondering, do I do that or it'll be way too immature. Like when your boss decides he can wipe away years of graduate study by dictating to you a memo & all you wanna do is turn around, pull down your trousers and FART!!!
ReplyDeleteKids are just themselves, and that's something I try to run my life by... Like if your overweight, big-boobied Aunt Doris comes over from Jerusalem and wants to kiss the shit outta you, and your mother's handing her 3 year old over into her fat arms and all you wanna do is pull at your hair & shriek at the top of your lungs until the monster lets go of you, you can! And not have to turn into an overweight teenager as well and answer harassing questions to your weight / waste size! BREATHE BREATHE
There's a famous quote I have on my fridge that reads: You are only young once, but you can be immature indefinitely. Somewhere somehow bet you anything Michael Jackson's sitting on a tree thinking just that!