We're all overgrown children, really

Isn't it weird how when we're kids adults seem like some sort of different species? It's like we seem to think that one day, on our 20th birthday or something, we wake up and we're responsible, old, and know everything - what we're doing, where we're going, how life all works.

Well, that was a complete myth, wasn't it? None of us really have any clue, there's no magic spell that suddenly makes us know everything we need to know. We're all just muddling through with minimal idea of what we're doing, right?

We're all children, just older children. And since we're all the same, there's nothing wrong with that.

Don't lament getting older

If we are to accept things the way they are, we shouldn't be worrying about getting older, because if there's one thing we can't change it's the passage of time.

I think we really are as old as we feel, and I still feel like a teenager. I think when we're younger we expect being an adult to be different, maybe for us to have dramatically changed somehow. But I still feel like an overgrown kid playing house and trying to fit in with the adults at work or out and about. It's as if when we were kids we expected to have gained some immense wisdom by the time we're in our twenties, but the truth is none of us have done this whole "life" thing before, and we're all just muddling through. The older we get the more experience we have, and the more so-called wisdom we can pass on to a younger generation.

But really, we're probably all just overgrown kids, and I say the more childlike we feel, the better - as long as we continue to learn from life! So in this way, we can be older and younger at the same time. That's pretty neat if you can manage it.

Staying young

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
  -Berke Breathed

Dance in the rain.
Sing in the shower.
Eat eggs with soldiers.
Watch kids' cartoons with your younger relatives and like it.

And just stop caring for a little while.