The Child Delights in Pretending to Be an Adult — and the Adult Aspires to Reconnect with Being a Delighted Child, Pretending to Be Adult-Like

When we are children, we want to model our parents/adults and try to pretend that we are all-grown-up. Our imaginations allow us to ‘play teacher’, ‘parent’, ‘American Idol judge’, anything in the adult-world that our little imaginations aspire to be in the future. A large part of our childhood, is about preparing ourselves to ‘be adult’.

When we are adults, a good part of the time, our children remind us of the magical time we had (as children) wanting to become grown-up. Seeing the delight in a child’s eyes, because of life’s simple, yet amazing things, is key to appreciating the awesomeness of life. Looking at the world through the eye’s of delighted children, is what relieves us from some of the stresses of the real-world/adult-world. We want to reconnect to the imaginative-delightful-child-world.

The irony is this: When we were children, it was the real-adult-world that we aspired to connect with; and when we are adults, it is the world of the child that we would like to reconnect with.


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