Never stop the kid within you

Human born with a clean mind as a child.The child loves everyone and everything. He does not feel any difference between rich and poor. And people's religion and region makes no different in his life. The child is always happy because he never lives in the past nor worries about the future. He lives only in the present. Only when he is hungry he demands food and get satisfaction when stomach is full. He never demands luxurious food or any other luxurious items. He is satisfied with whatever given to him.

The child also gets hurt physically and emotionally. When neglected by his loved one, he cries demanding love and affection but forget them immediately, never carry any burden in his mind. Thus his mind is light and hence he is able to stay happy. When the same child grows he adapts all the wrong thing from the society. He develops a taste for luxurious life and to get them he goes to any extreme pushing aside humanity, honesty and love. He makes his aim of life to be in top in his possession, in his business and in everything.

His ego developed in so big quantity he forgets to keep himself happy. Yes, he lost his ‘child from his mind'. No more he is the child who can laugh, get satisfied with simple life but have become an competitive strong (only physically) man and try to win everything , expect himself, by his ego and thus falls in the quicksand.

Only if he can be contented with his capacity, if only he can forget the past and stop worrying about the future and live in the present he can be happy which he has lost with his child mind. So the learned have said ‘keep the child in you alive' so that he and everyone can live happily. We, at our childhood days are left with a sense of wonder and amazement, when we pause to look at things, be they, flowers in your garden, stream in your village, scrolling pictures in the books, smell of coffee that you sipped in the early morning, bullock cart ride that you enjoyed, trail of sceneries that you enjoyed while being in a moving train when you were travelling with your parents, that reminiscence about playing with cattle and pets etc., were all added to our sense of “childhood curiosity” during those days until we all ‘lost’ them somewhere down the line, in our quest to become an ‘adult’ after developing lots of preconceived notions being fed by the society that “all that was curious to us during our childhood days aren't curious at all".

Pranks and realize that being grown-up is a myth! Never miss an opportunity to make fun of all little mistakes people do around. But don’t humiliate anyone. Go to parks, and play around. Feel light-hearted. Forget any such thing such as -pressure-stress-money-problems. Take things positively, always, live life like a new birth everyday. Care too much for all the things. Entertain others and make them happy. Blackmail your sis and bro for chocolates and gifts. Kiss your mother and say her goodnight, every night.

Let your father know that he’s still your superhero! Never believe that you’re old enough to do a thing. What better way to feel ‘nostalgic’ then to become reminiscent of our childhood days and school days and to remember that “we had that simple but happiest moments in our life” wherein our innocence and joy expressed in experiencing the simplest of things in life was so immense that “we crave even now to derive similar happiness but falling short” even when we possess assets and branded commodities we consider as our prized possessions.

The problem with most of us is that we have lost our “child like curiosity” and failing to live our respective lives with a “sense of wonder and amazement” as nobody can claim for sure that we have explored and liven to the fullest every facet of our life. Since we lost that “child like curiosity” the life in general to most of us have had become monotonous and we tend to “grind the same mill” under the guise of leading a ‘matured’ life.

Thus in order for us to become more ‘creative’ we need to bring back that ‘excitement’ which we all possessed during our childhood days to enjoy each of the moments in the simplest of things ( by taking a day out). By this, I'm not saying we remain a child, but certainly we need to maintain/ cherish certain ‘finer qualities of our childhood’ which we all did possess until the day we divested them under the guise of growing up as an ‘adult’.

We all can be ‘nostalgic’ about our childhood days… “but not to forget we all still possess that spark of child's curiosity” which we lost somewhere down the line.. we need to reclaim them to re-ignite our passion and excitement to live our lives to the fullest. According to me it means not changing your self just for the sake of society. Being mature but it doesn’t necessarily means you must have a serious mood every time.

Enjoying those small things , this is the most important remember the art of finding happiness in little things. Well i guess that’s enough keeping the child alive doesn’t means you start going to school again, but yes when around child try to mingle with them keep that thing alive in you and that’s it. It means keeping your sense of wonder and joy. You do that by making it a conscious goal and continually reminding yourself that’s how you want to be. And when you find yourself choosing not to be joyous and wondrous, you argue with yourself. This doesn’t mean you are always joyful. But you try to find some joy and wonder every day.

Our Inner Children are always alive in us. We don’t need to do anything to keep them alive. We become aware of them when a situation arises which we cannot handle and instead of handling it like an adult we revert to child like behavior of crying, sulking, throwing a tantrum - means we have an abreaction. Hypnotherapy, Inner Child work etc are very effective to heal and integrate this inner child so we can lead our lives as adults and not revert to a child like state. Cheers!