I think it’s time for me to be more child-like. I’m tired of being adult about everything.
I was on the beach yesterday watching a family with small children. One curly-haired, blue-eyed, cherub of a girl complete with a yellow bikini making a sand cake for her mother and her slightly older, more serious looking, brother in his boxer bathing suit with small blue whales on them eating a juicy peach and singing a song I don’t recognize. They are adorable, sweet, angelic…oh wait he’s ripping the shovel out of her hand and screaming, “MINE”, she has her mouth open but no sound is coming out, she’s standing up, still no sound…wait for it, wait for it…WOW. She lets out one blood- curdling scream and falls backwards into the sand. Her brother looks on, unfazed, and then continues digging the hole he had been neglecting while eating his lunch. She screams some more and her parents, clearly embarrassed but not unfamiliar with the theatrics, try to quiet her. “Don’t be a baby”, Dad says, while her brother is completely absorbed in digging and singing.
Oh please, let her scream I want to say. How I wish I could do that. Just once. Like say when the guy stole my parking spot or when the woman on the cell phone cut in front of me in line like I wasn’t even there.
Right down on the ground screaming. Can you imagine?
I think we could learn a thing or two about feeling our emotions without apologizing or holding them in from children. How do we get so repressed? Of course throwing yourself down and wailing isn’t the answer but maybe more honesty in our emotions is still an option.
“Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”― Jenny O’Connell, The Book of Luke
Can I hear an ‘amen’ to this!!! 🙂
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE this!!!!!! Sometimes I do do that…and try to ignore the funny looks I get from bystanders. 😉
I envy you. I may just try it after all.
Just do it!!! But maybe time it well…;-)
Love it…and may I say…this is the kind of post I would happily publish on the new site 🙂 It delivers a message…it makes you think!!! Wonderful!
You just made my day! Thank you.
I love this post. I used to know a psychologist who took riding lessons at the same place I did. One day when she was particularly frustrated with her lesson and her horse, she dismounted, laid down on the ground, and kicked and screamed until she was all screamed out. She was brave. I couldn’t have done that. No, my speed is having a Dove Bar before lunch. Very satisfying.
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Oh I love that! Don’t encourage me though : )
You have to pick your treats and pick your times with discipline. That doesn’t sound like fun now. So go ahead, do whatever you want.
Oh I’d love to imagine just throwing a good ol’ fashioned childlike tantrum…just once. Want to join me? 🙂
Abslolutely! The older I get the less I care about what others think so I expect I’m just about ready.