They all say be loose our innocence or something else when we grow up. There seems to be a slow transformation from a small happy camper to a miserable corporate slave.
But is it really true?
Childhoods are not as happy as they are often portrait by adults. The daily challenge of learning and being rather totally without about almost everything must be pretty frustrating. Kids are often frustrated and overwhelmed by “our” world. And being small, weak and being unable to create your own life it’s pretty unnerving too.
Plus your body and mind constantly changes, hormones drive you mad and illnesses are constantly looking out to infect or kill you. With every change and new thing they learn kids face a new thing they can worry about – and they do. There is no (mental) innocence in the life of kids, but there is a lot of stress and panic. Kids certainly can worry about as many things as adults do.
This is pure stress – so we should be rather happy that kids can have “innocent fun” and enjoy themselves by playing rather stupid games (while often still learning while playing).
What is this? Maybe just a thing? Or maybe a funny toy? Or something that can scare or even kill you?
Being a kid is a lot of stress, growing up a huge challenge without any real goal or explanation. Suddenly you are big and an adult. People demand from you that you choose your path and job for life without knowing what life is.
There is no such stages in our early life’s, when we are without stress and under constant demands from the outside to grow, learn and adapt. There is no time for innocence, nor do kids have any use for such a “concept”. They already have enough to worry about.
Life is not a box of chocolate, but a fucking long buffet – that you might enjoy or maybe not.
Only as an adult you can create your own life and your own niche to get control our your own cosmos.
But not many adults own their own life’s. Instead they develop a deep nostalgia about being innocent WITHOUT being able to control their own life’s. Many people are deeply scared by having freedom and the ability to make a choice.
