Playing Hide and Seek With Your Inner Child

Yeah, I know.  The term "inner child" is really overused and so overplayed.  However, I guess what I'm really talking about is being childlike which is not to be confused with being childish.  The biggest difference between the two is is that being childlike invokes the more positive qualities that children have: innocence, playfulness, joy, unconcerned with the opinions of others.  Being childish on the other hand usually refers to the not so great qualities that kids have: tantrums, disagreeableness, overall lack of maturity.  What tends to happen to us as we get socialized and "grow up" is that we not only become more mature

and (hopefully) don't have tantrums anymore but we also leave behind what is so great about being a child.  We leave these things behind as if being an adult and being playful are mutually exclusive.  Where's the fun in that?!

There's a really great commercial out right now for a well-known bottled water company that shows adults looking at their reflection on a store window - their reflections, however, are of themselves as babies.  So the adults start dancing or moving around in silly ways.  The baby reflections move in kind.  What is also shown is how much fun the adults seem to be having.

Where is your inner child - the childlike quality in you?  Can you find her?  If you can't and you want to...just yell "Ready or not, here I come!" and starting running after her.

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