Young Eyes

Firstly I want to get something out of the way before I carry on with my ramblings. My last entry was the low point of this blog and it will remain that way, I will endeavour to not post anything so bereft of substance and meaning again – if I do please tell me and I will do my utmost to atone for it.

You may of noticed that I have left the ramblings alone since that entry, the reason for this is quite simple – I was swinging from high to low, sometimes simultaneously therefore I would of struggled to write my own name let alone anything worthy of sharing with everyone else. Anyway here I am now and I believe I have something worthy of you, my reader.

Let 'normality' resume.

As I picked up niece from nursery yesterday and we skipped (literally, ask the witnesses) down the road I saw by looking at her exactly why life seems to be so difficult the majority of the time – the older we get the more we over complicate it. That little girl, that girl that I treasure so dearly shows each time in bright neon lights that we don't have to let life become so hard.

I'm not suggesting for a moment that we can remain as a 3 year old for eternity, as nice as it would be. What I am suggesting is that we can learn a lot from their outlook, the simplistic nature of their world and try and preserve some of elements rather than shedding them like an old skin that we no longer need, because we need it more than we realise.

There appears to be a switch in the brain that is triggered once we reach a certain age, once it is activated each simple task becomes a series of little problems and you are no longer able to simply concentrate on the task ahead without allowing an avalanche of other questions coming tumbling down upon you.

If a young child is hungry they go to the fridge and find food, their hunger is dealt with and they are happy. Contrast that with a 'grown up' doing exactly the same thing. The fridge is opened, we then think of the lack of food in there, the need to replenish it and just how we are going to afford it. What started as one of the simplest things possible has now snowballed in a problem, another weight that we carry with us.

The question is, is it really necessary for us to put all the extra burden on ourselves? Or is it possible to take each piece at a time taking bitesize problems rather than causing ourselves indigestion. Take 5 minutes to look at a young child go on their merry way, a step at a time, no need to think about more than that 1 thing at a time.

Before I'm shot down with people saying “life isn't that simple”, that sentence encapsulates everything I've been saying. Life will never be easy entirely but it can be made easier. Living in the present is harder than living in the future but dealing with the here and now will make what comes later that bit more manageable.

Go out of the door, skip down the street and leave the baggage on the doorstep, at that point you will realise how much lighter you can feel and remember how you once felt before you started piling on the worries.

Take care everyone.

Enjoy today, look forward to tomorrow.