The Inner Child

Bare with me while I tell you all a startling truth that many of us want to deny. Now most of America past the age sixteen knows this term "The Inner Child". Now I'm not actually going to define this and your welcome to take your opinion but for those of you who say I'm too mature for that, this is for you.

Example One: Coloring
Now I know not a lot of people like to color, that's a personal opinion, but if you were given two options by a teacher that said, "you can do this five page assignment telling me what you understand of the book, or make me a colorful poster that tells me the plot and all about the characters." Chances are more then ninety percent of the class isn't going to want to write a five page essay I mean come on, a lot of work at a computer, or the chance to color and in a way take the 'easy' way out. Who would?
Now this also helps with our brains understanding of knowledge. Bare with me while I explain. When you were in elementary school do you rember there being more color and the world seeing so happy? What happened to that? As we left middle school the color goes away and it gets harder. Truth is our brains work better with color, it's stimulating, it brings for emotions that we didn't even know that it could bring on, if you want a 'happy room' the best colors to go with are in the yellow family, while soft greens prompt you to be calmer and be able to think more.
Our lives we associated colors to emotions and items or seasons, red is mad, pink is love, blue is sad, yellow is happy. As far as seasons go, white, black, red, green belong in winter with Christmas, while pinks, baby blue, soft yellows, greens and airy colors are for the spring. Summer is bold says "Look at me world I am Summer" with it's bold colors it's reds and blues, and yellows. And finally fall, I can't speak for everyone but my mom loves fall. She loves all the red and yellow hues that are in the trees.
With just the color aspect in mind, why is it that when you could keep to the bright happy colors and use them to further students more, instead we get rid of it.

Example Two: "Train wreck!"
Maybe this one isn't everyone's group but there is this concept that we have in our minds that when something's wrong we want to be there, we want to see it. No one can stop us from doing so. If Johny has a case then you want a case. Not because you want to get hurt or anything, you just want to be accepted and when someone has an injury suddenly everyone's there friend, wanting to know what happened, wanting to sign the cast.
Now it's not to the same extent as it was when we were kids now we know the risks of getting hurt, and the cost. That we are afraid of. Yet we still have that excitement when we see something bad happening. Coming up with one of the most well known terms for what we do now called a Spectators Delay.
This isn't bad. It's not like "OH MY GOSH I HAVE A PROBLEM!" It simply just means when there is a train wreck, or a car wreck you want to see it. And you can't look away form it. Just over my Christmas break we had this happen.
Something happened on the free-way and suddenly we have all lanes of traffic shut down on one side of the road, two semi's and a logging truck involved as well as a total of forty cars. The worst car was found mangled under the logs that had fallen off the logging truck and rolled back onto the truck. While this whole seen looked like a death, and wound trap the worst was to the man in the car under the logs. His leg was pinched and bleeding but it was his only injury. The forty car pile up only had ten injuries which was a miracle.
Now while you red that were you interested to know what happened? What caused the wreck at the start?
If not guess you don't have as big of an inner child as most.

Example Three: NAP TIME
Okay if you don't like naps, this doesn't work for you. However as a kid I was deprived of naps. If I napped you'd be up with me till five, six in the morning and we'd sleep the day away. But none the less, nap time is amazing, you always want them, that is until you are too much of a "Big kid" to take naps.
Yet are you too big for naps, middle school it's starting to show back up a want to nap. high school it's there. It's big and you can't hide it. Especially during finals. What is the number one thing teachers say you can do after your test, "NAP or do something quite.".
For me I live on my 'nap time' so to speak. I get my sleep when I want to get it, in fact I can't sleep the whole night threw on week days because there is just so much to do and see and take in. So instead I take a few power naps during the day. And can't tell you how many people I hear say;
"It's nap time"
"I could really use a nap"
"I'm going to take a nap"
Face it we still love our nap times.

Example four: The True Friend
Now you have friends, that you go out and hang out with and act adult around. Then you have those friends you go around and act sassy with. However we all have at least one of these friends. That friend that if you act crazy wont just laugh with you or at you, but will actually be there helping you out. My youth camp girls saw this all the time. I got so sick of all the rules that I turned mine into a game. Granted I was music chair and had to teach all the girls songs, but girls remembered me as there youth camp leader and I couldn't help but feel special, and not because they learned the most from me but I was the crazy loud one that taught the songs.
However beside me the whole time helping me look like an idiot and get over two hundred girls involved was my True Friend.
Now she's not the only one, oh heavens no. I can't get rid of my inner child so instead I have multiple people to do this with. I have my friends that are loud crazy, and if a boy pisses you off he better be watching his yard for forks or his car for sticky notes or something because they all will get him and they wont let him forget it.

Now the Inner Child isn't a shame, it's just you. It's you in the most innocent form, the fallowing to be accepted, loved, and involved. Some people have a bigger inner child some never grow out of being a child. Give two grown men snow blowers and they just might take advantage of it for a snow ball fight with no snow balls.
But embrace it, don't disgrace it. Next time you get a chance, color, paint draw, help a kid build a tower of blocks just to break it, take a nap, act stupid, not dumb stupid, just silly stupid. Be loud, be proud, smile accept mistakes and love. Love everyone like they were your friend. After all why else were you so happy as a kid when you were getting a new friend every day?