I Don\'t Wanna Grow Up

Two years ago, I was on Thanksgiving holiday and walking on the beaches of the Oregon Coast. Now, the air temperature was about 50 degrees and the wind was blowing hard. Even though the sun was shining in all its glory, I had on a winter coat as to me it was cold.

Given that it was Thanksgiving, there were many families on the beach, complete with children in tow. While walking and admiring the scenic experience, I was mesmerized by three children playing in the tide pools. Now, if you know anything about the Oregon Coast, the water temperature is approximately 45 degrees. When you hear this temperature, we adults may automatically say, “Yikes! That’s cold.” Yet to these three children, “cold” wasn’t in their realm of possibility.

I couldn’t take my eyes off the experience that I created with these children. It was meant for me, and I paid attention. These kids were running through the water, splashing and laughing, in their bare feet and t-shirts and shorts. The temperatures didn’t affect their sense of play. Thus, they had no concept about the temperature until their moms said, “Oh, you must be cold and you must be hungry, you better stop playing.”

When the moms made this statement, the kids stopped their play momentarily and said, “No, we’re not cold and we’re not hungry,” and they continued playing. When I saw the look on their faces as they responded, it was as if an alien had spoken a foreign language, and they couldn’t understand the message being communicated. The kids’ experience was different than the parents, and they weren’t buying in to any other beliefs.

What I learned from this experience is we are to remember who we are in the pure bliss of being child-like. We are to exist for the pure enjoyment of being to create, to imagine, to fulfill our desires at that moment. We are to get lost in the “playing,” and play for play sakes, and that’s it. There is no outcome to be produced for the production lies in the experience in the moment.

We remember playing as children, and embracing each moment in the creation of it. When we built a fort, all of our imaginations put together would pull from cosmic sources unbeknownst to us, and unfold the materials for our creation. In this magical arena, we didn’t ever say, “I can’t do it.” We knew we wanted something to happen, and thus, we MADE it happen.

In the summer time, I remember creating a haunted house in my garage, and knowing people would pay to come into the haunted house. I enlisted the help of a few neighbor friends and we created all sorts of gooey stuff from our imagination, and the materials came into our experience just by merely thinking of the “haunting” effects that people would experience. We knew it would be great, and from this greatness, every conceivable force was at our side helping us. We didn’t even accept a notion that it would be hard. That concept didn’t exist!

Think back to being a kid, and how wonderful it was. Now, bring that “feeling” into the present. That’s how we are to “live” as adults. This is exactly how life is, and how we are to exist as adults.

We know that existence when we allow those experiences to just “be” for the enjoyment of the moment, and we also know contrast. In our adulthood, we try to get to somewhere else because in our minds this somewhere else offers happiness, a freedom from where we currently are in our thinking. This elusive “somewhere else” prevents us from being in the space of this moment, and pretend it, imagine it and have fun with it. We think we’re supposed to do x so that we can create y.

We didn’t realize that we’re to do x for the pure enjoyment of doing x. The y will naturally open up from the “feeling” of doing x., and it’s loving every moment of being with x that y will manifest.

For whatever reason, we adults adopted a presence of being that was all about a belief system of “working” at a job. And we centered everything around this “job.” We kept hearing, “You must get a job!” We believed that the job would be our ultimate “saving” grace, and would be the catalyst to guarantee whatever we wanted in our lives.

Is that belief true?

No, a job will not guarantee anything. It is our alignment with Source Energy that guarantees everything.

We came equipped with imagination, play, fun and laughter (feelings aligned with Source Energy), and we thought that as we entered adulthood, we were supposed to leave all this behind and be “serious.” And we accepted this belief, and we honored it.

“I am an adult, therefore, I must act like an adult. I must grow up and face all the adult things. I must be a man!”

Wow! What a belief to take on, right?

Now, I would have you entertain a remembering of this child-like behavior, and embrace what is our inherent equipment of imagination, play, fun and laughter. Use it on a regular basis for that is the perfect alignment with Source Energy. We inherited this equipment, and it’s our right to claim it as adults. Once this inheritance is claimed, it opens up abundance beyond anything we can imagine.

The abundance naturally pours out from the child-like behavior . And like Albert Einstein says, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Imagine your life how you want it to be, and watch out world!

Be as little children as this “feeling” place is what Source Energy had in mind when it was designed. These feelings are the place to go to “meet and greet” our desires.

We’ve heard “meet ups” being mentioned in social networking arenas, but the supreme “meet up” is aligning feelings with Source Energy. Thus, go to your “meet up” place in every moment, and meet up with your feelings of being a child. In this place, your Source energy will meet you desires, and the results will be seen in the physical world.

And I like to wear my hat, “I don’t wanna grow up,” complete with propeller on top, because it allows me to remember being child-like.

Today, go play a practical joke on somebody, and allow all the laughter to flow from that experience. Even if you get in trouble, it's so worth it!