photo by harold.lloyd

When we are kids everything seems fairly simple, innocently simple, and the world has very little shades of gray. As we grow up we tend to complicate, we create a great variety of shades in most matters.

It’s refreshing to be around kids and see the world in that light again. Personally, being around (so called) adults for a while becomes rather draining and tedious.

Ever since I went back to karate and started to deal with kids and teenagers even, I slowly rediscovered children’s simple points of view.

Take yourself back in time to when you’re a little kid. What did you enjoyed doing the most? What were your favorite things? What would you answer be to your problems of today? Who did you want to become? Who did you look up to and why?

It’s easy to get caught up in the big web of adult thinking, where we take into account many external factors. Which it’s rather pointless most of the time, but we think it matters so!

I think we develop an unnecessary tendency to we overcomplicate as we grow up. Not everything may be as simple as it was when we were children, but we certainly get a taste for complicating things.

We also get so wrapped up in being adults sometimes and quickly dismiss any childish activities.

We tend to stir away from doing simple things if they serve no direct or productive purpose. We become obsessed with productivity and ignore the small things that used to bring us joy.

Why not waste some time just looking at something simply because it’s beautiful?

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