Now this one came to mind this morning when I had a meeting where all managers and the president and vice president of our company were at.
I see this every day.. I am full-on in the business world and it seems that to most people adulthood means that you have to lose your sense of humor and forget all fun and "childish" things. I could NEVER live like that myself. I love the fact that I have two sides to me that I can utilize in my life.. There is the child called Emilia and then there is this grown woman called Emilia living in the same body.
I´ll give you an example of my "childish" behavior. It must have been at the point when my son had just turned 4, we went into a huge store, after going through the groceries and kitchen towels etc we usually go to the toy department in the store to check the new toy´s out. This time we noticed some cool star wars gear and I started telling my son how huge star wars was when I was a kid and about all the other toys and how these are so much cooler than the ones we used to have as kids. I gave my son a light saber from the shelf and took one for myself, then we went to the masks and I introduced the Darth Vader mask to my son, he didn´t like it so I didn´t force it, took the Vader mask for myself and then we started "fencing" on the isle, me with my Vader mask on and a red light saber and my son with his green light saber and I even started humming the s. wars tune very loudly. There was this old man behind us that just laughed his a** off at us .. See I think you can sincerely enjoy "childish" things even as an adult.. I have wrestling matches with my son or we might take some water guns and run outside or play something with LEGO blocks and build all day long or take a match on his Cars car track etc., I think a world where you have to confine yourself totally to the adult world would be very boring. My son also once told me that he loves to bring his friends over to play cause im the only parent that runs around with the kids .. maybe im just sad or something :-D
Basically I think that because I missed out on my childhood I've been able to keep my inner child alive. I actually once had a dream about it too, well me, meeting me when I was a kid.. but that was a sad dream and I think it played a big role in my own recovery from my childhood.
So anyways, back to the subject again :-D When you grow up you don´t need to hide the side of you that want´s to play, laugh and have fun and besides kids are great, they are so honest and when they laugh it comes from the heart and you can hear it :) For example we have these outing days sometimes from work and the last time we had two options at a same location, either enjoying a walk in the forest or some jogging or go and have a paintball war.. guess which one I picked ? The paintball was a cool experience and I enjoyed it so much, we were split into 2 teams ( I was the only chick who wanted to participate, the others went for the walk ) and we had a cool war zone with big rocks and everything in the middle of the forest, it was really cool :) but I really enjoy things like that.
Some people assume that if you are playful you must have something wrong in your head.. well might be im not denying that but, I've always been able to out think the "serious adult" people.. I think it´s smart to have a child alive inside of you :)
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