skibum wrote:
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Just be strong enough for repeated tries. It will pay off (or so I'd like to believe). The child inside you eventually gets a little bit older, in a natural way. However, I see the point that there's no need to press it too hard.
I am not concerned about the young part of me staying young. I just need to learn to balance the two. I have always had the child part of me and it is part of who I am. It's me and I love me as I am. But you can learn to balance to live with the two personalities. Sometimes it's hard when they collide but it's certainly doable. I think the hard part is not dealing with the child part but just learning and understanding certain adult responsibilities that I had never been taught or trained in. That is a bit overwhelming sometimes. But even if I learn them which I am trying to, I don't know that the child part is necessarily affected if she stays out of the way. I make sure she gets her time though and I think that is important for balance. I think you have to acknowledge you child parts and allow them some regular freedom of expression and that helps you stay balanced.
The need for staying balanced makes sense to me. Perhaps it's easier just not to think of the child part and the adult part as separate entities, at least not all the time, and concentrate on the tasks ahead, while thinking of ourselves in plain and simple ways. I am who I am and what I am, and I only do what I think is the right thing to do.
I think my inner child is most satisfied if I'm faithful to him. Sometimes I can play like a child with other children (or by myself), other times find some special interests to indulge, or imagine what would I do as the adult version of that child. This includes having an own child, and giving him/her all the good things I wanted to have. At least it would worth giving a try.
14 Dec 2013, 3:48 pm
