There is an Elementary Reason for the Stick in Your Ass

The world is full of adults who seem to have turned their backs on the voice within them that echoes through their memories from a past long ignored.

They trade the silly for the serious, real friendship for false idols, random connection for straight-laced commerce, imagination for evidence, and playfulness for the common resolve.

They get so caught up in the perceived direness of their everyday lives that they can’t see how what they’ve physically and emotionally accumulated over the years is weighing them down and blocking the sight of their innermost selves. The forgotten child inside them that remains innocent and forever open to the vast potential they hold over their reality.

As we get older, our attention starts to get pulled in every other direction but inward

We pull our eyes away from the limitless possibility of novel experience and, one by one, add layers of colored lenses over our once crystal clear vision.

For good reason, as there are more important things regarding loved ones and the rest of humanity than fixating on our own unique circumstances. However, without a clear understanding of who you really are and what you’re really capable of, you’re not giving yourself the opportunity to fully embody that eternally young spirit within you that represents everything about you that is pure, natural, and utterly unique to the world.

People go about the whole “inner child” thing completely wrong.

It’s hard enough to stop my own resistance to the phrase itself, so how could I ever manage to tell a veteran cynic that although it sounds like propaganda for mid-life finger-painting, it’s still an important framework to use when trying to understand a person’s potential?

It becomes easy to dismiss ideas of immaturity as emotional regression after a person has been treading water in the deep end of adulthood for years on end.

Who has time to splash and play?? I can barely keep my head above water! If I don’t keep these arms and legs wavin’ and kickin’, I’m done for! I’ve got a mortgage or Christ’s sake!

These are the same people who have ignored their naturally playful instincts for so long that they’ve not only forgotten who they are, but they’ve also convinced themselves that forgetting is the natural side-effect of “growing up.”

These people seem to have missed the point entirely as to how you’re supposed to treat yourself and the memory of the child you used to be.

It’s not your duty as a physically maturing human to suffocate the young soul you once were so your spirit can age right alongside your body.

Instead, you’re supposed to gift that inner child with newly developed insight and personal power as you walk the path of life.

Aging and maturity only feels like a curse because as we wear ourselves down with the trials of daily living, we start to see them more as a weight than as a weapon.

If we could be more aware of the fate of aging while we’re young, perhaps we’d be better able to use the experiences and wisdom we gradually gain as tools to create and play with rather than letting them shape and alter the fundamental innocence at our core.

Yes, good experiences appear good, bad experiences appear bad, enlightening experiences create a more evolved state of mind, and negative ones cause us to question ourselves and the validity of life itself, but all of this should be granted to your inner child as simply more advanced equipment to play with.

‘Child’ doesn’t have to be equated to ‘ignorant,’ and ‘immature’ is not the same as ‘unintelligent.’

Wouldn’t you rather see your life with unique potential and playful optimism? And only use the seriousness of adulthood when you choose to, rather than seeing the world only through the grim glasses of your average adult’s daily doldrums?

If there’s a voice telling you how you should act despite what the graveness of the world is telling you, listen to it.

You might not even want to see the world as a place to “play”. You might hate the phrase “inner child” because it sounds trivial or juvenile to you. Call it what you want, the feeling is still there. And if you’re going to remain adamant about ignoring it, you probably need to listen to it more than most people.

Again, the experiences you have throughout life shouldn’t fundamentally change you unless you are the one deciding to use those experiences to see the world differently.

You should use these experiences to equip the spirit you’ve always had with new power to shape your reality, not as an excuse to act as if you’re a serious grownup with serious grownup things to do and therefore cannot be bothered to entertain notions of childish joy and wonder because they have no place in the Land of the Dead.

To do this is to damn yourself to counting the wrinkles in your skin as well as your soul.

Evolve your inner child with the power and insight of new experience and different perspectives, don’t suffocate it inside the plastic mask of convention and a society that takes itself too seriously for its own good.

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