What we can learn from kids

What is it about kids? Yes, they can be cute and adorable sometimes. But it's their young minds that fascinate me. They don't comprehend the same things that occupy us old folks, and they sometimes could honestly care less about them most of the time. That's why the adults of the world are slowly being pulled into a black hole; adults care too little about too much and don't ever really take a break.\nI work at an office, I sit in a classroom, I do homework and I have to be responsible. Is my life amazing because of that? Not really, but I shouldn't complain. But I liked going outside to catch lightning bugs. I enjoyed playing hide and seek with friends. I totally sang along to all the Disney movies. I liked eating popsicles and cheering whenever the ice cream truck drove by. I loved being free from anything that I could imagine would become part of the adult life. All of these things are being horribly, horribly mutilated in my life. No ice cream trucks, no hide and seek and no singing out loud. And I wonder why there is stress in my life?!\nHere's an example: there is magic in Harry Potter. Well, yes... there are wizards but that's not the magic I am talking about. There is the magic of imagination and the power of the unknown. We lose this in our lives as we grow older, but I firmly believe that the real magic of Harry Potter that sucks us in is the fascinating world that we wished existed because it would be so much fun.\nOkay, so how many kids were up at midnight to get Harry Potter? Now how many adults were there? I was there for the fun of it. I realized that adults can have fun too; the adults at Borders at midnight were screaming for a break from the complexity of adulthood.\nSee, it is essential that the "big kids" take time to live the simple life of a child. Where I work, I would love to take some time out everyday just to play some company kickball. It would be relaxing, rejuvenating and it would inspire the kid in all of us. We might lose an hour of work but the spirit inside of us would just be charged up and ready to go.\nStress doesn't affect kids like it affects adults and clearly impacts us. Little kids don't understand back-stabbing, harsh words or catfights. Most of them know just friendship, love and compassion. We need to seriously just transplant those feelings and emotions into ourselves. We might just find that life is a little less evil than it should be.\nOur complex lives are having complex results that are stressing everyone out.\nLet's just all take a break, remove the four-foot pole from our behinds, play some dodgeball and have a great time. Live life like it's all you have. You don't need to act like a child (you might get slapped for that) but it's OK to play like one and enjoy life like one.