You are not a kid. You are old. Wait! Don’t take offense to that. I meant
older- ...older than you were when you were wide eyed and constantly in
awe of the world. If you are reading this I assume you are over 13? At least a tween. However, with a blog title like IFLAKA I expect most of you are at old enough to reminisce about the good old days. You know which days I mean.
Why am I going on and on about feeling like a kid
again? Well, for one thing, it’s a common expression, meant to convey a
sense of lightness and pure joy. Most kids feel this on a daily basis
over everyday things like school, or colored pencils,
or gumballs.
At a certain age we lose this joie de vivre. We disdain going school, there’s no use for colored pencils and we curse
delicious gumballs for being so tasty whilst rotting our teeth.
There are moments though. Moments that surprise us.
They come out of nowhere and fill us with excitement and giggles as if
we were children. For some people this comes from a new car. For others
it comes from traveling overseas. Often times
it’s love that gives us these feelings. These events heighten our
senses to the positive aspects of our surroundings leaving us giddy,
happy and childlike.
Did you know kids actually have bigger
nerves and taste buds? They have perpetually heightened sensitivity to
their surroundings. Loud is louder, hunger is more extreme, pain is more
painful, sweets are sweeter and silly is hilarious. We
literally lose feeling as we age; we become desensitized to the world. A little sad, isn’t it?
Going back to those times in our lives where we
momentarily feel like a kid again. Everyone has different triggers. For
me nothing makes me feel younger than being healthy and learning. I feel
excited and small when I learn new things about
people and the world in which I live. Health and science make me feel
like a kid again.
I should have warned you first. NERD ALERT! But
really- how can these things make us feel young? Well, kids are always
learning. It keeps them entertained and amazed by life and the world as
they know it. Feeling like everything is incredible
keeps them optimistic and engaged. When we stop learning, we lose our
youth.
Feeling healthy also keeps us young. As we get
older we begin to lose structure. Staying up late, eating past being
full, stressing over money, becoming sedentary… these are all easy
patterns to fall into, but it doesn’t have to be this
way. Essentially, we must become our own parents. We must set
guidelines and rules that our inner child does not want to follow and we
need to enforce them in order for the inner child to survive!
Go to bed early, eat your veggies, have dessert if
you’ve been good, spend 30 minutes running around outside and climbing
trees, go to bed early and overall, try to relax knowing that the adult
in you has things under control. Every once
in a while you should even break the rules and get away with it. Work
on these seemingly simple things and you will start to see a youthful
glow emerge. Energy, abounding health, great skin… happiness.
How do you even start? IFLAKA is here to provide
recipes, motivation and tips for health along with the awesome-factor of
burgeoning health science from around the globe.
I hope that you leave this blog encouraged, excited and recharged about life.
Happy reading to you and your inner kid :)
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