keep the child alive

In your childhood, not knowing the pain, not obeying rules, and not being bound to conventions, you follow what comes to your mind, you do what you feel like doing. It's all original, all yours.

As we grow up, we learn about society's conventions, the unspoken rules and learn/force to listen to the authority. Slowly, the child inside gets suppressed and we learn how to silence him and how to ignore him.

Somewhere between ages of 15 to 25 is the balancing point between the two forces, and I think, that is why those years are the most exciting year. You know the rules of the society, your analytical mind is developing and the child inside uses that to bend the rules, to express himself, to break the taboos, to explore beyond the boundaries, to experience. And the combination of the two brings creativity, enthusiasm, and fresh view to the world.

After that age, as we become more and more independent, we get scared, we feel the urgency of creating security and support for ourselves, and that makes us conservative. We tend to follow the known paths, and that makes us to bound ourselves to known frameworks. After a while, there is no sign of the child, the one who used to make our lives so exciting.