My Inner Child.

My little two year old breaks into a dance the moment she hears music. I wonder why I cannot be so uninhibited.

She always announces exactly how she feels about anything. I cannot. It seems pointless to announce "I am sad!" or "I am happy". Which adult does that?

She says "I love you" with the ease that only a child can possess. I cannot. That's not something adults say.

She eats only when she is hungry. She does not feel the need to sit down and eat three times a day just because those have been designated as meal times.

When she does eat, she eats with all her senses. Every meal is an adventure, an orgy of smell, sight and touch. I eat mostly because its something I have to do. For adults most meals are brief punctuations in the daily routine.

She wears what she wants. She picks clothes in an instinctive way. She does not care if pink and yellow do not go well together. Adults dress for others. With us its more about how others think we look. A child will never ask you "How do I look Mommy?" because she is sure that she looks great. The Mommy on the other hand......

She is comfortable naked. Totally not self-conscious about her body. We adults on the other hand get nervous at the swimming pool wondering how are bodies are being perceived.

She moves on and never lingers on a past issues. She will never tell me two days later that she was hurt by my refusal to take her to the park. Adults on the other hand.......we will hang on to a perceived slight for days.

And then she will "grow up". Become more of an adult. Responsible, practical, calculating, the child in her gone forever.

I have posted a link to a talk on children's education. It talks about how we need to tap into our inner child to be creative and how our education system is built to kill that kind of creativity.

How schools kill creativity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY