Don't grow up - too much!

Staring at a baby, it seems that it represents the infinite value of life. Their lives are not bound and valued by external factors like wealth, appearance, or power. This value innate from the first breath in each of us does not diminish, but somewhere down the line, we forget about it? 

We are still as alive and human as the first day, yet we have lost that childhood within us! 

This childhood loved and cherished playing in the rain. It smiled at everything and had the power of erasing any gloom. It was filled with energy to question everything and never bogged down by the pressure of it being a stupid question. Who decides what's stupid?

This childhood we possessed never cared what anyone thought about its actions. Nowadays, we all are in a rush to fill our empty pockets with happiness yet we want to do it based on the rules set by society. If you do 'X' you will be happy, if you do 'Y' you will be happy. Where is that child within us who found happiness in the smallest of things defined by it? It existed within us, so where has it gone? Has its constant fear of being lost as we grow up come true?

We don't know when our childhood slipped away from our hands. On hearing the airplane or helicopter sounds, we don't run to our balcony anymore and look up with a smile on our faces. Now our hands don't smell of sand anymore, instead, we see bridges of tension. 

How do we make our future better? In constant thought of enriching this future, we are forgetting about the present. Instead of just earning money to spend in the future, how about we spend some of it today and enjoy this moment? Staying in this lighted moment, why are we still searching for the deep abyss of darkness? 

If it unexpectedly rains nowadays, without an umbrella we freak out. How about we take a step back and lunge into our childhood and bring back that elixir which loved the drops of rain?

We luckily do have many reset buttons if we think of it. Every year gives us the opportunity for fresh starts so how about we reconnect with that earlier self of ours and imbibe its infinite value!