How being child like is the most mature thing you can do.

Wisdom you've lost along the way

A baby, upon birth, has a limited set of emotions - discomfort, hunger and contentment, peace seem to be the four main emotions that the days of a newborn are filled with. Evidently, these are all that the baby needs.

We can effectively apply this analogy to our lives as well. This is not to say that you shall not ever feel any extreme emotions, but to take away from this analogy, you should learn to keep with you that which is effective. Anything that isn’t working for you is working against you.

A baby doesn’t feel jealous, embarrassed, angry, fearful, or vengeful. A baby is grateful for a stomach filling meal and a good night’s sleep - and timely nappy changes of course. But realise this - anything that doesn’t serve us is unnecessary. It serves you no purpose to get angry, to stay envious or become fearful. Having child like faith and a jolly outlook on life is not something out of reach.


Returning to one’s natural state as one did as an absolute baby, we’d have to go all the way back and examine what exactly starting seeding in us new emotions, as we grew older. The answer to this is quite simple, people. Awareness and consciousness got us interacting with people, which slowly fed into us the need to be like our elders, we see this when toddlers try and imitate the adults. A sort of people pleasing and fitting- in feeling is born in the child. This in turn can be the seed to first ever jealousy. Jealousy towards the elder siblings or adults doing things the toddler cannot.

This further leads to anger, frustration, which although seems cute, but is a small seed that’s gotten planted in the child, inevitably of course. This is the beginning of unnecessary emotions for this new human.

A child aged 4 - 11 is the most inspirational and insightful. This is the age where the child is fully enjoying the wonders of as many senses as it can perceive, and is curious about every little thing. Curiosity leads to asking questions, which leads to answers - this is perhaps the lack of fear that plays out beautifully in this example. To learn to care more about learning from life, rather than caring about what someone might think of you, is the most childlike yet wise thing you can promise yourself. Gift yourself the recklessness and curiosity you did as a child.


The best part about returning to childlike wonder is that it is absolutely present with you at all times, even in this very moment. Conditioning from parents, you being taught “manners” and the unwritten rules of society has molded you into someone that doesn’t think twice before suppressing the important questions you should ask, answers to which would solve a whole deal of your needs. The beauty of unwritten rules is, you can break them and people would call you revolutionary.


You as an adult are the most at advantage, having years of experience with emotions, you know better what emotions are of no use to you and what emotions can be collected and safeguarded. So why would you not take advantage of the years of sensing emotion into finetuning them to your advantage?

Consider this - return to childlike curiosity and deject any emotions that don’t serve you, this wisdom has been with you since birth, it’d be foolish to let it go.

Wishing you well,

Mystica x