I brought my daughter to a local park the other day. I like to get out there once a week or so if I can. We couldn't have picked a better day. It was absolutely gorgeous!
Toward the end of the trip the two of us sat idly on the swings while the woman one partition over tirelessly pushed her daughter on the large green swing for toddlers.
"I wish someone would push me on the swings!"
I heard a blog post come crashing through the quantum barrier and reached out to her.
Most of us wish that we were kids again, but how many of us stop to ask ourselves why? Yes, things were simpler, but most of us have taken vacations as adults where simplicity leaves us anxious.
What is it that stops us from reaching over that time barrier and tethering ourselves to it permanently?
Distraction.
It takes an extraordinary amount of focus to achieve a state of consciousness where we feel like a child again. The difference between the purity of being a child and the diluted sense of innocence that we sometimes feel as adults is that as children, there was nothing calling us back to the adult world but an underlying sense of growing up.
But just because it feels uncomfortable to invite our virgin youth into our lives, that doesn't mean it's impossible, or any less rewarding than whatever value we hold to it.
In moments of safety and privacy, ask yourself what is wrong with truly feeling everything about a moment, and recapturing the wonder that you felt as a kid before you knew about the birds and the bees or the bomb. Happiness is a series of moments both good and bad--but mostly rewarding--moments that touch your soul in some way.
How many of these moments can you string together today?
Take stock.
How completely do these moments affect your mood?
Look for Part 2 in the Swingset series later in the week!
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