A Child's Spirit

I’m 20 years old and am already wishing I was a kid again. (Most of my friends think I’m just a big kid anyways.) Who wouldn’t want to go back to the only time in our lives where we have no responsibility, are at our imaginative best, and when everything is new and there to be learned? Children represent what is best in humans. A child is innocent, imaginative, and content with there place in the world. A child’s content has to do with his ability to create a different world, an imaginative world, a place where they can escape to and enjoy, without pressure or restrictions.

They can open a wardrobe and step into a different realm with ease. Many writers and artists spend their lives trying to do the same thing; trying to revert back to the pure imaginative state that is a child’s mind. Is it any wonder that Romantics and others have seen the child as perfect and innocent; have turned baby Jesus into such an icon? So, here is to the child in us all, may it rule over our creativity and spirit.