Don’t let your inner child die

Let’s dive back into your childhood to a time you felt the happiest, when joy wrapped

you like a warm blanket, the time when everything felt perfect and whole. I remember as

a four-year-old visiting Europe with my family, and wandering in the whimsical streets of

Disneyland, Paris. I rode the “Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast”, wearing those big Mickey

Mouse ears and holding on the most delicious and humongous rainbow lollipop a four

year old had ever imagined. I felt like I was in the happiest place on earth. On the other

hand, when I was ten years old my childhood best friend and perhaps my first friend was

moving away and I realized all these years we spent together, all the time of us being

little girls would come to an end, and I concluded that this happiness was

fleeting and a question popped in my head– will happiness remain forever?

It’s easy to say that as we grow older, reasons to be sad change, we develop our cognitive

processes, understand the world in different ways, and start assuming. The world around

us changes with our newly forming perceptions.

We are learning, growing and developing in ways unimagined. What seemed exciting to

you as a child might not feel the same now, Why, though? Our emotions vary with

respect to our experiences, the more we experience the less exciting it becomes for us and

eventually everything feels the same.

We’ve all heard people saying “don’t let your inner child die” that might be because to a

child everything is new and everything makes them wonder, they possess a sense of

imagination, an enthusiasm with which they view the world around them. Our

Experiences create our perception and cause us to behave in certain ways. For most of us,

our childhood is the most precious time of our lives and most of us remember the first

time we rode a bicycle, the first time we were not using your feet to walk but were still

moving , the paddling, the cool breeze of the garden made you feel like you’re floating on

your own magic carpet , those butterflies in your tummy gave you the biggest smile.

Feelings and emotions are a part of life. But as we grow older, We learn to thrive as

adults with that child hidden somewhere, more for some than the other, learning to

regulate your emotions with the excitement that childhood once brought.