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For One Day Be A Child
I honestly wish sometimes that adults thought in terms of children. Now, before you go on a rampage, please listen to me here for a second. The other day was babysitting my boyfriend's niece for the night. There is a small park off from our building so I figured I would take her there and just let her blow off some steam and just enjoy the day and what was left of the sunshine. After watching her run around, playing a few games of hide and seek with her and then some x's and o's in the sand a bunch of other kids showed up and she slowly wiggled her way into playing with them. Now this is the part where I wish that some adults really did think like children.
I sat off to the side on a bench and decided just to watch her, where I sat I could see her at all times so I wasn't really all that worried. Now, in this park were chinese kids, black kids and a native kid. What amazed me most through this whole thing was how much these kids got along. How they never argued about who they could be friends with or who they couldn't be. They all worked together in their ultimate goal of filling up this slide with sand. They all grabbed pieces of cardboard from this box one kid had brought with him and they all worked together in one group. It honestly amazing me to watch them.
As I sat there, watching this kids work together for something that as adults we would think was stupid, it amazed me. It was something I think we as adults need to learn to do. Somewhere along the line we start putting up these walls and sterotypes against other people that we live and work around. Mostly, we do so because of some bad experience we've had with them or from something we have seen on the news and so forth. I don't think we actually take the time to get to know some people that might even live right next door to us.
I think that we should just sometimes be that child and go say HI to someone. I mean even smile at them, because a smile can change one persons day. Heck, you can even make that one persons day. So, for one day, I want each and every one of you to go out and be a child. Just talk to someone whom you normally would never approach, you might come to find out that somewhere along the line you might have something in common or a common interest or goal in life that is heading along the same path.
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I sat off to the side on a bench and decided just to watch her, where I sat I could see her at all times so I wasn't really all that worried. Now, in this park were chinese kids, black kids and a native kid. What amazed me most through this whole thing was how much these kids got along. How they never argued about who they could be friends with or who they couldn't be. They all worked together in their ultimate goal of filling up this slide with sand. They all grabbed pieces of cardboard from this box one kid had brought with him and they all worked together in one group. It honestly amazing me to watch them.
As I sat there, watching this kids work together for something that as adults we would think was stupid, it amazed me. It was something I think we as adults need to learn to do. Somewhere along the line we start putting up these walls and sterotypes against other people that we live and work around. Mostly, we do so because of some bad experience we've had with them or from something we have seen on the news and so forth. I don't think we actually take the time to get to know some people that might even live right next door to us.
I think that we should just sometimes be that child and go say HI to someone. I mean even smile at them, because a smile can change one persons day. Heck, you can even make that one persons day. So, for one day, I want each and every one of you to go out and be a child. Just talk to someone whom you normally would never approach, you might come to find out that somewhere along the line you might have something in common or a common interest or goal in life that is heading along the same path.
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