I cannot put enough stress on how important someone's childhood is. I don't even know if anyone cares enough to remember what their childhood was like. My childhood is amongst my top values in my own life. When you think back to being a kid, what do you see? For me, I see a few things that stand out right away. As a child, you are pure, innocent, clean, and to an extent oblivious. When I was a kid, still am in a way but not for long, I was very free, I didn't worry about life itself, I didn't have all these stresses that an adult life can bring. Life was very adventurous, each day brings a new and refreshing experience as you begin to build your life of morals and beliefs and values. I personally think you learn more in the first chunk of your life than you do the rest of it combined. Some may agree, some might not, that's fine. A child's life is so precious because these first ten or so years of a life defines what the person is like for much of the years ahead of him/her. If a child is raised a certain way, it only makes sense that the child has that type of a personality unless something drastic happens.
Where I'm going with this, is that I heavily encourage people that even though we grow older, as we mature, we should keep the child-like spirit of freedom and adventure no matter where we go. "Staying young at heart" is a term thats probably more commonly used to describe this. Umm, I'm not sure how someone may view this topic, but to me, it's how I can stay so "free" and relaxed all the time.
There was a couple times where I got asked how I would be able to keep up with this persistance and blog or write so often about so many things. This question ultimately lead me to typing this blog entry, yay. But I often tell people that it's about where you choose to put your attention. As life gets older, things become more routine-like; meaning you wake up, go to school/work, work your butt off, go home and go to sleep and repeat. Doesn't this bore you? Then you could probably ask, "then how do you keep it fresh?" Like I said, it's about what you choose to look at. This is where the child's mind comes into play.
You live each day as if you're starting a new life, then you go out and wait for things to come your way. It's not hard, you just have to look in the right places. Even if it means, daydreaming in class, you shouldn't let your mind prevent you from having a good time. Just let loose once in a while. Sometimes you just feel like dancing, singing, jumping.. but then your mind suddenly comes and tells you "hey man, that's not cool, people will think you're weird." It may not be that extreme but you should just let it happen. It allows you to be so much more freer in a sense that you experience something new everyday. By allowing things to just happen, you come into contact with so much more and you kinda just feed off of that. Let the environment around you influence you, then you'll be filled with thoughts and all that kind of cool things. Dwelling amongst the world is a pretty fun thing once you get used to it, if you ask me.
A big reason why people will stress or worry is because they let it get into their mind's way. Just take each task one at a time, sit down, work at it, and when you're finished, you can just slap it in the face and be like "done with you." Then move on.
... And my train of thought dies. If you've read everything up to right now, I wouldn't be surprised if you are confused out of your mind. I pretty much just sat here and wrote for the past half an hour; I know it isn't alot but you have to take into account the distractions of msn. So I mentioned a few things about a child's free mind in there and that's what I did. Something inspired me today and I decided that I'm gonna let this topic into my head, then I'm just going to write about it until my thoughts end. As for the meanings of this, I'll let whoever stumbles upon it to interpret it in whatever way you want, whether that be inspiration or just insightful knowledge. Afterall, it wouldn't be cool if I tried to indoctrinate people into living the loser-ish life that I live right? =D But ultimately, what I'm trying to say is that we should keep a childish side to us.. One that's slightly foolish, daring, adventurous; this keeps things new in life. This is how I get my inspiration to make the creations in my contemplation indoctrination, a beautiful fixation as you find yourself surrounded by His love and mercy. Try it. It's worth every moment.
Much thanks to Jason Mraz and the comfort of God's grace as my top inspiration to live high and righteously
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