Being a Kid Again

I sometimes dream about being a kid again for a day. What is so appealing about being a kid is the fact that most of the time you do what makes you happy, and it really is as simple as that. If playing with the blocks is not entertaining enough you move on to the farm set or perhaps the light-up toy piano. The older you get the harder it is to find time to be able to engage in activities that truly make you happy. It is so important that even as we grow up and become adults with an overwhelming amount of responsibility we still take time to do the things that make us happy.

It is so important to remember to take time out for yourself because sometimes life hits people with hard things. Death in the family or a serious medical condition being diagnosed are both rude awakenings, and it is at these especially hard times in life that it is important to remember the things that make you happy. It will be after events like these when you will need something to pull yourself out of the pain, and participating in what makes you happy is just the remedy.

Life's little bothers are perhaps the more recognizable and real reason for why setting time aside for ourself is so important. It is, many times, the little things in life that get to people. This might include losing the car keys and having to search for them when you are already late or forgetting the dry cleaning or trying on everything in the closet and realizing there is nothing in there that makes you feel good. It is these little things that bog us down and affect us that all add up and depress us and ultimately provide the reason for why doing the things that make us happy necessary. It is after the time spent doing what makes us happy that we are lifted up and lose our sadness or anger or frustration.

It is so important that people combat the things that make them unhappy with the things that do make them happy. It is almost like an equation and it is most beneficial that the happiness side is greater than the unhappy side. Finding what makes you happy does not mean that you have to completely revert back to peek-a-boo or hopscotch or the other things that made you happy when you were little. All that matters is that at the end of the day there was at least a five minute chunk of time where you were completely selfish and did something entirely for yourself.