Have you ever visited your parents or some other older aunt or uncle who immediately treats you like you are still 10 years old? Do you then behave accordingly? I think we all do to some extent. The reason being, we never really grow up!
Take my dad for example, he is 82 years old and still plays cowboys and Indians. At a local casino, he approached a Native American dressed in Chief regalia and asked, “Are you Sitting Bull?” The man just looked at him in astonishment. My dad answered, “I am Caballo Loco! Let’s talk awhile…” He sat and talked to this man about sundry things and just made a friend with the freshness and innocence of an eight year old. Why not?
Aren’t we all children? I just started working in an office surrounded by men who had become accustomed to being surrounded by only men. I noticed their discomfort at feeling my femininity around them. So, I bought them all candy and said, “This is for my boys!” Now they look at me with wide smiles knowing I will nurture and accept them.
It is very simple, we don’t grow up! We want candy, we want to play and we want to be accepted by new friends. Use it to your advantage and play more. Laugh easily! Love with an open heart! Enjoy being a cowboy or Indian with innocence! Life is too short to be so serious…it might kill you!!
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7-8-9-10! Ready or not... Here I come!
If only I thought of sales as Hide-n-Seek. My week would be a lot more fun.
When I was 16, I got in trouble for something and my mother told me to grow up. I told her I would never grow up. At 23 I came home from the Air Force on vacation and something happened, can't remember, and my mother stopped and looked at me and said you weren't lying. I asked what she was talking about. She told me when I told her at 16 that I would never grow up, I wasn't lying.
I wasn't lying. And to this day, I try very hard never to lose that kid in me. Especially with my daughter. We can play like brother and sister, best friends, what ever when we get going.
I love being a kid and at 37, I just have a bigger allowance to buy cooler toys, that's about the ONLY thing that has changed!
This was such a fun topic - I love being allowed to play just because I can. If I had to stop and get all grumpy grown up, I think I would turn into a raisin of blah - without the sunglasses or fabulous dance moves of course.
I think it's important to stop one in a while and just that pony we always wanted. Isn't that what goals are anyway... the day dreams of what we want to have or do or be later on? I always wondered why grown up daydreams have to be so serious - no wonder we feel like we need so many naps - we're bored with our own imaginations!
What I love about the three of you is that you are "real" children and like to play with me in my sandbox!
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