How many times have you thought about the fact that your parents were once kids our age. I very recently experienced a situation that caused me to really think about the difference in a person as they get older.
In this incident, we were playing a game where hiding was necessary and some people decided to hide in the neighbors backyard. After the game was close to over a man approached our car with a disgusted attitude and started yelling even though he had been apologized to and the situation explained. He decided to single out the driver of the car and called the cops.
I know that many of you have heard the statement "I won't be like my parents." As I thought about this I realized that as I get older I sometimes forget what it was like to be 10 years old and amazed at the most simple of tricks or the high schooler down the street.
What causes us to become so oblivious to our past? The man who was extremely upset seemed to show no sympathy towards the fact that we were sorry and we were just being kids playing a game. It makes me think about whether or not he ever played night games as he grew up.
Most adults appear to have outgrown the simple art of enjoying being in the moment like children can. If adults can train themselves to shut out the outside distractions and concentrate on what is going on in their immediate surroundings could prove to be very relaxing.
Children do this very effectively. They can easily concentrate on one task at a time to the exclusion of everything else.
If adults can occasionally think and act like children and take pleasure in the simple things of life it could help them to relax and enjoy themselves and be less stressful.
http://self-awareness.suite101.com/article.cfm/lessons_from_childhood_can_make_adults_happier
Everybody should consider how they act with respect to a situation like this whether you are 16 or 46. No matter how foolish or childish an idea or act is, we were all at that age at some point in our life.
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Alex, I agree and
Alex, I agree and respectively disagree with what you are saying. I believe that it depends on the parents you are talking about. Many kids do have very strict conservative parents other people do not. My Dad Mike still acts like a teenager a lot of the time, and his crazy this one time in Montana Stories always seem to top anything I do. Other factors have to be considered one mans bias against high school students does not mean that every parent is like that.