Be as a child

Mallory: Wherever we go, whatever happens, Mickey, when I look up at the stars, I’ll know you’ll be lookin’ up at the same ones.
Mickey: Same ones, baby
Mallory: You make everyday feel like kindergarten. — (Natural Born Killers)

Look at a child, and you will see what freedom looks like. A child is like a flower, a wild animal, the wind.. Free. Unfettered. A child doesn’t have the network of agreements that adults have made weighing it down. A child doesn’t yet carry the baggage that parents, teachers, the media and society as a whole has forced it to carry. A child doesn’t look back with regrets at yesterday, nor with anticipation for tomorrow. A child simply is in the NOW. Enjoying this moment, not a care in the world except having fun. Not comparing the NOW to any time past, nor thinking about how it will be. A child dwells in the NOW naturally, filled with wonder and an almost hedonistic form of innocence. The ability to live in the NOW is a gift that far too many of us have buried beneath all the constraints and agreements we have put upon ourselves and allowed to be placed upon us by others. Be aware of these agreements, and begin to break them. Recognize that society is invested in keeping you chained to these agreements, that it will fight for its survival anyway it can, but you can be triumphant. Remember to not take it personally, when they use things like ‘You’re such a child. Grow up. Don’t be so immature’ as insults. They are just afraid, and have their own agreements to deal with. They are conditioned, as you are, as your parents and teachers were. They know no better. But when you no longer take it personally, you will come to realize that the things people say about you actually have more to do with them, and their own fears and issues, than they do about you. Don't take the negative things personally, but do not take the positive things personally either. The person saying ‘oh you are so clever’ has just as many agreements and issues as the person saying ‘you are so dumb’, they are both simply comparing you to themselves, and what they fear. Don’t carry their baggage as well as your own. Don’t take it personally, for when you do you allow others poison to enter into you, spreading the sickness. Simply do your best every day at everything you do, and only choose to do things you truly enjoy. This is a key to once again becoming like a child, and instead of being just another cog in a hellish machine that is ‘modern life’ you can be standing an a heaven of your own creation, part of the universal mind that longs to embrace us all.