Childhood. It’s the time of your life when everyone protects you from the complexities and dangers of the world, yet still allows you to experiment with it, to develop and satiate the overflowing curiosity that a child can have. The adventurous and confident personality that they carry everywhere is constantly being tested alongside their chaoticness and refusal to calm down. They are always fearless of the consequences that something can bring and head dive into anything. This seems to bring them the most happiness and energy even if what they’re attempting fails. They’re not scared of failure. They don’t see imperfections within themselves or others.
Quite often, when they see their reflection, they giggle and are obsessed with it in a way. Their love for others is pure with no bad intent in mind. Their maturity is out the door as is their surroundings. Always jumping, running, playing non-stop, refusing to go inside. And it’s never alone. They have this ability to attract others and create fast friendships, leaving them with good memories to reflect upon, even if they don’t last a lifetime.
The joy and playfulness each one emits is contagious, spreading like wildfire. Their tantrums and upsets cause immense amounts of stress alongside an array of things to their parents but always becomes laughable when remembering them in the future. Probably the most relaxing thing to their parents is the silent car ride home, as they have exhausted all their energy into the latest activity that has been presented to them.
They represent so many of the different goals and accomplishments that people today are working towards achieving. This isn’t saying that we strive to have tantrums and be careless in an immature way, having someone always take care of us. It’s saying that some of these characteristics and abilities like confidence, self-love, curiosity, activeness, and fearlessness are all things that we aspire to have and implement in our lives and situations now, as adults. What strikes my mind now is where did all of it go? These traits? Where did the freedom (in a way) go? We had this ability to do all these things as young kids but today as adults we struggle with. Where did it all go?