We often reminisce about the good old days by talking about our friends and the things we used to love. Perhaps some very specific anecdote that we have told absolutely everyone we've met a million times, but keep recalling anyway. Perhaps an embarrassing incident that never really leaves our heads and likes to torture us when it's time to go to sleep. One by one, the images start rolling, and we see ourselves as wonderful, innocent, beautiful children. That's when we start to realise that there is something else behind those moving memories. As sweet as childhood can be, once we time travel to the golden years, we inevitably have to come to terms with one universal, unavoidable truth: we used to be kind of weird. We might look like functional adults now, but it took eating mud pies and decorating our faces with random kitchen ingredients to get here.
It's no secret that kids can be a little…random at times and that our minds used to exist in a world of their own, not really worried about common sense or useless things such as "natural physics". We truly believed we could fly by jumping from one step to another on a long staircase, and we really believed we could move objects with our mind.
Here's the real secret, however: some of us never really stopped. From time to time, amid an important but very boring meeting, a troublesome family reunion, or in between dissociated thoughts, we find ourselves going back to old habits. On other occasions, we just really need to connect with our old selves by acting as silly and nonsensical as we used to be. No worries, just give it a try and prove to yourself that the weird (sometimes a little scary) kid in you never really left.
So, next time you have to talk to your intimidating manager, your scary neighbour, or your secret crush, just remember that they most likely did some (let's face it, most) of the things in this list when they were kids (and let's face it again, as adults too). Be honest: which of these things do you keep doing as a so-called "functional adult"?