We As Kids Are The "Real Us"

Account of somebody I know:

" Like everybody, I had dreams too for me, my wife, my kids. I will not say I achieved each of them but I did achieve some I planned and some I never planned, too!  In these 79 years of life, what I have learnt is that my anger never did any good to me,my health or my family. My ego, not talking to somebody for years did no good to me until one day I got the news of somebody I stopped talk to being dead and now my ego stood nowhere to be seen. My greed never let me sleep peacefully until my kids went out to settle down somewhere else and my wife left for heavenly abode and that was when my greed came to rest, it was no use then! I was jealous of my friends having their ambassador cars almost 35 years back until I realized having an ambassador and a luxurious life did not let them live longer than me walking, cycling and lately riding a scooter to work every single day! Having dreams makes life interesting as we have things to look forward to, goals to achieve but we often, let our 'dreams take toll over our lives' rather than 'living' our dreams. Having a dream that makes you happy is worth but having a dream that inculcates in you anger, hatred, ego, frustration, kills the child within you is not worth having! I am happy I have learnt these things in life, I'm not jealous anymore, I try talking to everybody even if they don’t,  things do upset me, but I try controlling my anger, haven't totally won over that yet! Only if I knew all these things a few decades back, life would have been more wonderful and great, but yes, better late than never. I'm trying to be a kid again, a child that knows nothing but love and happiness for all!"

 I guess I have come to this realization a little late, or maybe, too late, but I finally did. Have you ever thought why is it always said that old age is equal to another childhood! Old people are always compared to children. Whoever has lived with a family or in and around a neighborhood that has children and old people sharing the same area will know what am talking about.

When a child is born, all he knows is, to laugh or cry, he doesn't know anger, jealousy, ego, greed or hatred. He just has two reactions to every situation, either crying on seeing someone or on something or laughing and smiling on seeing something or someone. As we grow up, along the way,we catch anger, ego holds us, and greed for something or the other surrounds us. Children are often marked as  GOD!  Like  him,  kids do not know what jealousy is, what hatred and anger is!  All they know is love and happiness!

When we age, slowly and gradually we develop within us these new emotions. When we are kids and we don’t see things that we want coming to us, we become sad but, as we grow up that sadness is replaced by anger and frustration. As kids our greed includes chocolates, our parents loving just us more and more and not other kids, not even our siblings, but growing up we shift our greed in search of things we don’t have even if it means sacrificing what we already have. Ego? Nah! They don’t even know if this word exists! A short, "I don’t want to play with you" for a few minutes have been replaced by hatred, sometime life long hatred!

Then comes the old age, the age where have lived completely, from being kids, to young adults, to responsible family people and to life after retirement. This age, where people are old enough to spend their remaining lives in bed and young enough to play around with their grandchildren. There's no jealously seeing other young people thrive because they've already lived their lives, they want their surroundings to be happy and prospering and most importantly peaceful. They’ve to be taken care of, like a child. The only difference being they depend on their kids like the kids depend on their parents. They've had utmost experience of their lives and so they try concluding their lives being like a child again.

One major difference between kids and old people is that kids behave the way they behave without having any reason to, they're born with those traits and the people who have lived all their lives, the old people adopt these back into their lives because they've experience life, because now they know hatred, ego, anger, jealousy will never lead them anywhere. We as kids are the real us.