Unleash Your Inner Child
Do we ever really grow up? In many respects you may feel no different to how you felt when you were in your twenties. For me, in some ways I feel little difference to how I felt when I was a young child. While we grow; physically, experientially, emotionally, are we really so separate from the being we started out as? Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. I’ve believed a long time that we never grow up in the way I thought adults did when I was a child, and on the day of writing the perfect example came to me – The base emotion of grief and loss. Today has been a day of loss; a number of friends have lost a loved one. I was happy I could be there for one of these friends, and in the circle of people around her (alongside lots of cheering laughter and lifting) there was compassionate sharing. In particular, the need for physical comfort; one widow confided she sleeps with the sweater of her husband, two years after his death, another said that her childhoo