Some of you may not be so young, and some of you may be quite young. Either way, it applies to anyone and everyone reading this blog post.
Being young is possibly the best thing that can happen to anyone and it does happen to everyone.
I will start with this. A piece of advice I can give to those of you who are still young is this:
"Enjoy being a child as long as you can. You are a child for a very short time. There will be plenty of time for being an adult." - Rene Erives
Maybe I am feeling a little nostalgic today. I don't know. I woke up this morning and I saw my kids asleep, and I wondered what they dreamed of. I wondered what they would do upon waking up. I felt clueless there for a moment since I have been an adult now for a good 20 years (give or take). It was almost as if I had forgotten for a moment what it was to be a child, and I notice, when things become stressful, I tend to forget, or at least put those memories aside.
I stepped outside for a few moments, still thinking about my job, my mortgage, my unevenly inflated tires on my car among other things. I checked the news and I went back inside to get ready for work.
On the way to work, of course the same things going through my mind as I went from a 5 MPH roll to a 30 MPH zoom on the freeway then back to stop... Repeat several times.
I sit here now, wondering what all I miss because of everything that I think about and how many opportunities I had to be a child even as an adult. We take everything so seriously and we are at war with one another because of our differences. In the end however, we are all still human. We all bleed red and we are all born, and we all die. What we do with that time in between is what is important.
Some people even die from too much stress. Stock market prices fall, we stress. We lose a job, we stress. We get divorced, we stress. We didn't get that promotion, we stress and so on and so on.
A child does not have to worry about those grown up things that kill us. They don't have to. Well, at least most children do not.
I guess my point is, if I have one, is that if you are young, then be young as long as you possibly can. Be a child. We are children for about 15-20 years, and then we are adults for a good 60 - 70 years. If you have children, please remember that sometimes it's okay to just go crazy, run around, get dirty, fall off chairs and ding your head a bit. It's okay to eat some dirt, catch bugs, and even pick up a piece of candy off the floor. It didn't kill us, and it certainly won't kill our children.
If you are an adult, you can no longer go back to those days to being a care free child, however, you can go back into your memories and dig out those dusty good times you had, and play them again in your head. I promise it will make you smile. If you share those moments, then not only will they make you smile, but you may also laugh out loud, and even shed a tear of joy.
Oh yes, as an adult, even though you can no longer be a child, you can stay young in mind, and you can have fun. So for homework, take a water hose, make some mud in the back yard, and get to making mud pies and having mud fights with your kids. Or you can do it alone if you wish. Don't worry about the neighbors... they're just a bunch of old fogies anyway:)
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