Simplicity

On Sunday, I went to my sisters house to get my hair done and to see my niece and nephews. At one point when my younger nephew and my neice were out in the trampoline with me standing there watching I said something about gravity. My nephew, who is 6, started asking me about gravity and what it looks like and what it does. So I'm sitting there trying to explain it and I'm thinking, "Oh, my friggin' God... What the hell did I get myself into?!?!" So he keeps asking questions and I'm trying to answer them as best as I can so that a 6 year old can understand it while my 3 year old niece bounced and screamed away behind us.
Then today in Pysch we were talking about how in adolescence, thinking becomes more complex, where things can have more than one meaning to them.

And that, after Sunday, got me thinking about how much easier life was when we were kids. I mean, just think about it! There was no manipulation or deviousness to our acts because there was none in our thoughts. When we didn't understand something we just asked an adult. Like Mom, why do people poop? And Mom would tell us. Food goes through our bodies after we eat it and a day later comes out as poop. But Mom, what about pee? Well honey, when we drink something, that goes through our bodies and becomes pee. But why do we eat or drink? Because our bodies need it.

 Bam, that simple. There were no intestines that absorb the nutrients in the food and pass it along to the rest of the body. There was no "Some foods are bad and some are good". We ate what we were given and we didn't think about it. When we asked what the sun was: Well, honey, its made up of all the love that people have that floats up in the sky and keeps us warm =). Okay well I totally made that one up, I don't think I was ever told that or that I ever even asked that but maybe if I ever have a kid thats what I'll tell them...

But anyway, thinking was just simpler back then and it thinking now just proves it because back then, it was all about what was happening now. We didn't care about getting back in our barely-there pasts, most kids weren't seriously thinking about the future and now all we think about is the past or the future and we hardly ever live in the here-and-now.

 Thats what I really wish. That I could be able to live in the moment more and take advantage of them as they come because that moment is never going to be here again.