I’ve just been chatting to a friend about her favourite toy when she was a child – her teddy bear. She’s now 28 and still has it on top of her wardrobe – kind of watching over her. Of course, she doesn’t need to play with it anymore (and even if she did, that would be fine, wouldn’t it?), but knowing it’s there keeping an eye over her in ‘adultworld’ makes her feel warm, comfortable and reassured.
As children, we are often told to ‘grow up’ and are often also desperate to do so and yet as adults, we are told to stop being childish, a word which usually has negative connotations, so I prefer the word ‘childlike’. As children or adults, society seems to want us to be ‘grown up’, whatever that may be to different people, however I would encourage everyone, adults and children alike, to be childlike. It’s a good place to be and I would argue that we don’t visit as much as we need or even want to…
(Image courtesy of the rather fabulous Aitor Frías & Cecilia Jiménez Photography whose beautiful website I would highly recommend visiting)
I Am Away From The Noise 
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