Our inner child
Someone made mention of their inner child recently.
Given the time of year, I thought it would be a good idea to explore the things our inner child could do during the festive season.
Who knows, you may find yourself actually enjoying the season rather than dreading it.
These are but a few of the activities which occurred to me.
Go look at the Christmas lights.
Not only is it free, but it will make the adult in you glad you don’t do it because you don’t have to pay the power bill.
Get a body board and head to the beach for some fun in the surf.
There is nothing makes you feel better than tumbling through the surf then screaming like a little kid when you get dumped.
Perchance you have snow, get a toboggan or sled and find the biggest hill you can, then throw caution to the wind and fly down it like the 7 devils are after you.
I’m sure you did it as a kid, why not now?
Eat the decorations off the tree when noone is looking, then deny, deny, deny!
It’s such fun.
The worst that can happen is you get busted and grounded, so then you don’t have to go to work. Bonus!
All the more time to work on those edible hangy thingies on the tree anyway!
String popcorn for the tree.
This was one of my favourite things to do when I was a kid.
Nothing has changed, I still love doing it.
Get a tin whistle then run up and down the street blowing it.
Go to the movies and spend the entire time giggling at the teenagers swapping spit in the back row.
Find a slide then go down it as many times as you can in the shortest possible time.
Play on a seesaw while you’re at it.
Go buy a yoyo and see if you can still walk the dog.
Preferably one of those crappy plastic ones you get in junk stockings.
Get a hula hoop and give it a go.
It will be a damned good cardio vascular work out at the same time!
Wander around the streets after the stores close and look at their displays.
Some of them are brilliant, and damned well done.
There are a million and one things you would do at Christmas when you were a kid, so why not now?
I guess my point is this.
Forget about the responsibility and hassles of Christmas and do what kids do best.
Embrace it, enjoy it and make the most of it.
Just for one day.
Try and see it through the eyes of a child.
Who knows, maybe it will hep you see things a little differently?
What did you used to do as a kid?
Categories: Christmas, Fun, Madness, life, thoughts
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December 13th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Good idea! You are right, it’s easy to get lost at Christmas time in the stress of it all, and then you miss out on the reason for the season! Love this!
it is easy to get caught up in crap, so if we all take a kids view, common sense tells me it’s gotta be more enjoyable…kids have the best way of looking at things…simplistically!
moe
December 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Wonderful post.
I want to go sledding in the worst way right now. (wishing I had a sled)
And I want a yo-yo as well.
then go get both…
“Get a body board and head to the beach for some fun in the surf.”
You would kill yourself at the Cape right now.
Talk about waves! Lordy!
Thanks for pulling me back several decades.
I almost forgot how much fun I used to have. 8-(
there is no reason you can’t still have the same fun you know..i do it all the time..play on the swings, seesaw, even go down the slide…don’t worry about what people say, just do it…you’ll be amazed at how much fun you have…who knows..you may even start enjoying the season again…
~Mick
moe