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It’s Not Too Late

It’s an old saying, but worth hearing and thinking about again…

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood!

The first step, decide to enjoy yourself.

And often that means leaving behind the many little and large hurts of your chronological childhood. You can’t undo or erase them, but you can transcend them — moving on, giving yourself permission to laugh, to abandon your troubles and cares for hours at a time, to enjoy yourself freely and deeply.

Put fun on your agenda. Seek people you want to laugh and smile with. Make time for unpurposeful silliness.

If it’s hard to start, go to a park, a playground, a child’s birthday party. Watch and remember, or learn, how it is to play, to indulge in delightful pleasures with total abandon and no concern for anything else.

And then go forth and do likewise. Be a kid — a deliriously happy kid, whether it’s again or for the first time in your life.

Leave behind your imperfect childhood and your cares as a grown-up.

Giggle, wiggle, heal.

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3 Comments on “It’s Not Too Late”

Dick Richards Says:
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:10 am
“Giggle, wiggle, heal”??????? Now THERE my friend is a great book title!!!

I have an acquaintance who helps himself stay in the moment by monitoring his feelings of resentment and fear. Resentment signals living in the past. Fear signals living in the future. But gigggle, wiggle, heal sounds a lot more fun as a mantra to stay in the moment.
Don Says:
February 3rd, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Hey, Dick, thanks for the suggestion. Hadn’t ocurred to me, but, dang, you’re right!

I actually do have a little mantra that I use as a reminder to enjoy not just endure.

I learned it from the late great Bill Gove who was a pioneer in the paid speaking profession. He said that before he would step before an audience to give a talk, he would always remind himself: “Let the little boy come out to play.”

Wouldn’t the world be a better place — at least a lot funner! — if we all regularly reminded ourselves to let our little girl or boy come out to play!

>>Resentment signals living in the past. Fear signals living in the future.

Same could be said for pride and hope.

Remember “Island” by Aldous Huxley? “Here and now, boys. Here and now!”
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060085495/donblohowiasleadA/]

Thanks for the thoughts!

Don
Dick Richards Says:
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Mike Myers told James Lipton on an Actor’s Studio interview, “Serous is what you have to be until you can get silly again.” I love that word — silly.

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