Children have so much innocence and where does it all get lost in the growing up, and why does it get lost. Almost all of us lose it, and I always wonder that why do these childhood traits not stay with us through out our lives. Why do they have to fade away in the societal and upbringing conditionings.
When I spend time with my nephews and nieces who are all still very young, it makes me feel like I too want to get back to that age and keep living forever in those times. When we are small, we want to grow up fast. In school days looking at the youngsters in college, I would feel, their life is so cool, I wish to get there soon. When I get there I would look at people in successful jobs and I wished to get there soon, and then I would look at married couples and wished that, life is so much fun there and wanted to get married soon, like wise it just kept continuing, from one stage of life to another.
But now to look back at it, the best of all were the childhood days. They were so carefree days; they were days of innocence. Even if there was a fight with anyone, we would move ahead so quickly. As children we barely differentiated between the rich and poor. Forgive and forget was so easy then, there would be no holding onto grudges and I just wished that we all adults could retain the same state of mind even after growing up.
As we grow up, we get onto competition with each other, we start holding grudges against each other, we get filled up with ego. The pride of our success in life gets over us. We were never like that in our childhood, we took life easy then. But as we kept growing up, we started making life difficult for ourself, with our own mindsets. The more we get the more we want. We never settle down with what we have and that's where we also start messing up the world with our greed and quest for acquiring more and more. The wars, the violence, crimes are all results of that.
Just imagine a world where everyone would still have a childlike mind, it would be such a harmonious place to live in. The conditionings and circumstances that we grow through starts shaping us and then we become what our experiences have taught us. As children we are pure, our minds are clean. We think good and we do good, but then as we grow up, we are taught by our schools and families of how to become monsters and ow to be never satisfied in life. The greed of acquiring more and more is feeded in our minds. We are taught not to settle down for less. In all this bargain the childlike innocence starts getting lost and we become just how our elders are, and this cycle keeps continuing from generations.
That is a fact that we can never be the same like what we are as children but we can still retain some of our childhood qualities consciously and live our life, which would be much more peaceful and contended and also a happy one.
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