Making Peace With Your Inner Child
There is a voice inside us that will not keep quiet. This voice is loud, and demanding, and will not stop until you stop whatever you’re doing and listen to it. You ignore it, and try to pretend that you don’t hear it, but it will never leave you alone. This is the voice of your inner child, and the reason that he’s screaming is because he’s lonely.
When we were young, we believed in everything. We believed in our parents, our dreams, our ideas, ourselves. We weren’t afraid of looking, or being thought of as stupid. We weren’t scared to say what we wanted to say. We weren’t held back by the thoughts of “if-onlys”.
We used to find everything beautiful. What was this? A spoon? Whoa, that’s amazing. What do you do with it? You eat with it? Wow. What’s eating? It’s when you put food into your mouth. Is this food? No, that’s a chair. Can I eat it? It is highly frowned upon. Oh, well, wow. A chair! What’s that for? And it pretty much went on like that.
As we grow older, and things that used to fascinate us start to become mundane parts of our every day lives, the child in us slowly grows very difficult. It’s not because in himself he has started asking more, but it is because you stopped providing him with his needs.
Listen to him every now and then. Let him take over. Let him guide you into temporary bursts of insanity. Let him teach you how to love. Let him bring you to new, exciting, and possibly dangerous places. Let him open the doors of life and let you experience the wonder you once had when you were growing up. Let him teach you how to live.
Because there is no better way to live life than through the eyes of a child.
