When we were small, one hour felt like a vast stretch of time, but now weeks and months go by when we blink. I guess as we grow older there are more options; so many more things to do, and also so many more things we have to do. But yet, we squander time worrying about things nobody cared about when we were five or six, like where am I headed? why does this cost so much? why does she have a Gucci bag and I have a no-name-brand bag?
We become less tolerant of petty mistakes. If a five year old's white shirt turned pink in the washing machine, he might not even notice. And when real problems arise, children have the zeal to take it head on, devoid of fear or doubt or regret. They smile when something good happens, cry when something bad happens. No hidden meanings, no innuendo.
They are able to live in the moment and take every day to it's full value, measured in only one factor: fun. But that's what life is about, right? Having fun. Being happy. We lack that simplicity. Tangled in the never-ending loop of worry and work, we lose sight of what we live for.
Simplicity. by todo-el-mundo
What do you live for?
This is a complicated issue you are talking about here Tina. We're not 5 anymore, and maybe we need to start worrying about what we are going to do with our lives. If we live just for fun, the fun can just suddenly end with "I have nothing now." Life can seem complicated sometimes, but it's all we have and maybe we need to start appreciating it. There's always time for fun in between the work we do. It's like an opposite kind of a thing - if we didn't have work, there would be no fun :]
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My intention with the 'where am I going' was to point out all the worrying we do. And although worrying is good, to an extent, as in it gets us thinking and prepared, it's the ACTIONS that really change things. So instead of just worrying about it for hours, we could go online and look up undergraduate programs at Princeton. Although they start from worries, that's also where they should end. Worry -> action, not worry -> more worrying -> even more worrying. Even though I'm often guilty of the latter. xD
ReplyDeleteMy main point with this whole thing was to point out how we seem to forget to enjoy ourselves and the world around us more so as we grow older.
&& that's definitely true with the yin/yang work/fun thing..