RANDOM MOTIVATORS
Best compliment ever...
So I was at work, and much to my usual I was doing something "odd and unusual"--in this instance, I had just spent the last ten minutes doing everything in extreme slow motion. A guy I work with stopped and said, "you know, I just figured out who you remind me of." My ears perked up with excited anticipation. "Tom Hanks, from Big."
I felt like Rocky and Rudy at the same time. Best compliment ever. A major life goal had been achieved. I was identified by an acquaintance as a child at heart. At that point, I needed nothing else for I had been validated to my core. And then it made me think: at what point does the child within us go away, and why? How much bigger, brighter, and better would the world be if we all retained some of that child within us? I love how I see the world; I love how I interact with it; I don't mind being called "weird" on occasion because I can tell you this: a child's world is full of wonder, full of possibility, full of life. Why would we ever want that to fade when the child within us grows up? Yes, all of those qualities can be regained, but once the child is Big, it's so much harder to go back. I never pressed the OFF switch on mine, so I'm naturally a kid at heart.
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