I’m not talking about our inner child. She is vulnerable. He’s been kicked around by the kids at school. That’s a tender place.
I’m talking about our inner K.I.D.— “kid.” The one still playing about deep in our heads. He’s still there if we look for him. And I promise you, he can come out and play of we let him. Maybe he’s the cause of a migraine or two because he’s been kept deep in our heads and all he can do is kick his ball around.
Who is this kid? She’s the one who sees all the possibility in the world.
Kids play, and they play with imagination and abandon. There are no limits in their minds. Nothing is stopping them. They are free to dream. The best part is they get to make up the rules of any game they’re in at the time.
Think if we could do that. No self-imposed limitations. No worries. How cool is that?
With your inner kid, there is no long view. There’s just now. It’s hard to see the long view in the here and now.
Kids know how to play, experiment, and do things differently. Differently how? Differently however they make it up in the moment. They know how to see things differently.
When was the last time you got the giggles? When was the last time? You know, like Anderson Cooper on CNN. That’s his inner kid laughing… and once he gets going, he won’t stop.
Where am I going with this? I’m not sure myself. I was skimming some notes and saw something about calling on your inner child. Then I thought, why inner child? What if we called on our inner kid? Sounds more fun to me.
As we move through life from being a kid and into adulthood, day by day, year by year, our inner kid is filtered out of us. Or she gets sequestered deep inside our grown-up way of thinking.
When you were a kid, not everything worked out, did it? But, you didn’t care, at least not for long. It was fun! Maybe it took a couple of do-overs, but it was still fun. Remember “do-overs”? That’s what we called it when something didn’t come out the way we wanted. We learned, adjusted, changed some rules, and tried again.
So, I think we should explore our inner kiddos. Maybe even let them come out to play. Maybe.
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