Leaving Childhood Behind

[Guest guest]

It's so easy to leave childhood behind.

The good things, I mean. The bad things,

those, we carry along. Joy is left behind early on:

The joy of wondering, and of play soon dies, and

the joy of always trying new things, also, departs.

 

Forgive and forget is left behind too, and we learn

to hold to our grievances soon enough. Two

things that are hard to leave behind are

thinking, and reacting like a child. A serious

mistake, we often make, is not to use child

psychology when asking adults to change

any behavior. LOL

 

Pete

[Guest guest]

--- Pete S <pedsie5 a écrit :

 

 

 

It's so easy to leave childhood behind.

The good things, I mean. The bad things,

those, we carry along. Joy is left behind early on:

The joy of wondering, and of play soon dies, and

the joy of always trying new things, also, departs.

 

Forgive and forget is left behind too, and we learn

to hold to our grievances soon enough. Two

things that are hard to leave behind are

thinking, and reacting like a child. A serious

mistake, we often make, is not to use child

psychology when asking adults to change

any behavior. LOL

 

Pete

 

Sweet and very true. That old bag of heavy adult life

is just too heavy for some of us.

P

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5 wrote:

>

> It's so easy to leave childhood behind.

> The good things, I mean. The bad things,

> those, we carry along. Joy is left behind early on:

> The joy of wondering, and of play soon dies, and

> the joy of always trying new things, also, departs.

>

> Forgive and forget is left behind too, and we learn

> to hold to our grievances soon enough. Two

> things that are hard to leave behind are

> thinking, and reacting like a child. A serious

> mistake, we often make, is not to use child

> psychology when asking adults to change

> any behavior. LOL

>

> Pete

>

 

Some, though, are pretty good at holding onto

that child-like irreverence. Like, on this list,

Bob and Silver, to name a couple (not an exhaustive

list

 

Bill