A few weeks ago, I was making a routine Wal-mart run when I saw something that made me stop and wonder. I was in the back, by one of the pay-phones they have outside of the restrooms. As I stood there, waiting for my companion, a little girl skipped away from her family and walked up to a pay-phone. She pretended to put money in, and proceeded to play-talk into the phone as if she were a thirty year-old woman speaking in self-assured confidence.
It made me think: why is it that when we're children, we always think about being grown-up? We play house, we play school, we play work...we dress up in our parents' clothes. I think one of the number-one things children talk about (or at least are asked) sometimes is "What am I gonna be when I grow up?" It's all about growing up.
BUT,
then the child grows. And the child finds himself or herself wanting to be a child again.
Why is that?
It seems to me we're missing something by always wanting to revert or progress, and never just to be.
Why is it that we always want what will be or what was, but never what is? Well, I suppose it would defeat the purpose to want what is--why would you want to want what you already have?
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Daniel, very astute for someone who has not yet reached what one would call the "grown-up" stage. We "grown-ups" tend to think that you "youngsters" do not have the vision & experience necessary to understand that concept...that we as human beings are never satisfied with the status quo, but want what we once had because we REMEMBER it to be better, or want to obtain something different because we THINK it will be better.
Keep up the good writings...I enjoy reading them!
Reminds me of Psalm 23. How many of us are led by the Shepherd to still waters?
Wow! What a wonderfully written entry. I think it's because it's human nature to just not be satisfied. We always want something more. When we're young we want to be older, when we're older we want to be a kid again. We may have a car or a house but always want another one. It's just our nature. I think grown-ups can learn a lot from kids, they seem to enjoy the simple things in life that us “grown-ups” often take for granted.
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