Giving Love back to Your Inner child

If you have been following along this or any of my other writings for a while you know that I like to talk about finding joy and having fun. I am a big believer in doing things that make us happy and when we explore those interests and hobbies we get curious about the world and we start to learn things. The key to curiosity is the willingness, the joy, the excited and wonder with learning and exploring.

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The problem though is that many of us hit a certain age or a point in life where our curiosity and wonder started to wane. We start to do things out of necessity rather than curiosity and joy. And slowly but surely things start to just be chores. Life becomes a series of events where we just check the boxes and move onto the next thing. We end up just going through the motions. It is a reason many of us feel stuck in life. We lost our curiosity. We lost our ability to try something new and learn and stumble and fall and get better. We got so focused on achieving certain results that we disassociated the thing we were doing with the reason we were doing it.

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That’s what makes kids so special. They just go out and try stuff. They just go out and do whatever feels natural. They fail and stumble and fall and get up and do it again. Children show us the secret to fun and finding joy. They aren’t just running around outside imagining dragons, and princesses, and grand adventures just for the sake of it. They are doing those things because they are a creative outlet. They are a way for them to learn about the world and get better at something. Because the truth is that we don’t get better at something if it feels like a chore or something that we have to check off a to-do list, we get better at something when we are being creative and having fun. When we get to express ourselves either through movement or art or spoken or written word that’s how we get better. That’s how we get better at life.

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If we have two options and one gives us greater enjoyment while doing the event then we should choose that one. Our joy and happiness should be a priority in life. Yes there are certain activities or tasks that aren’t as enjoyable and that’s ok. Not everything that we do will give us joy. But if we can fill our life with 90% of activities and interactions that do, those remaining 10% tasks will be easier to complete. Or better yet if we can rewire our thought patterns on doing those tasks that we don’t necessarily enjoy to reframe them in a way that is connected to something we enjoy that tasks no longer becomes mundane and a chore.  

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So many of us are living on autopilot that we forget that we are supposed to have fun in this life. We forget that there are a million and one ways to have fun and do things that we enjoy. Go be more curious about the world, sit in the wonder of it, slow down and take it in. Express ourselves, go remember the things that you loved as a kid and find a way to incorporate them into your life again. Life is supposed to be fun. It isn’t supposed to be a chore. And when we introduce fun back into our life and find a creative outlet the world and universe opens up for us in some pretty incredible ways.