Children At Heart Part II, Contributed by @Olawalium

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Children take things with a pinch of salt, only the adults take it extra miles. You will see two kids fighting, and their parents would come out, shout at each other, and even keep malice with each other. Yet, you will see the kids coming together to play once again. That is until one of the parents sees them playing together again and try to separate them. We take life too seriously. We should be gentle at heart, just like the little children.

Children value friendship even more than some of the adults. They meet someone and get along with them that minute, and from that day or moment, they refer to such person as their friend.

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Adults are a little bit careful about making friends, about falling in love and the like. But children, on the other hand, go all in, with the whole of their heart. We taught the little children to fear. We sometimes fail to allow them to be the children that they are, by forcing too many rules on them, especially bitterness, when an argument arises.

Like I was saying, they value friendship a little bit more. While growing up, before moving into our house, we had a neighbour who stayed at the back of our apartment. I am friends with their son. I can’t remember all the details now but they have been coming faintly as I write this post.

I remember going to their house to play with him and his two sisters. Just two years ago, I reconnected with one of my friend’s sister and she came visiting. She got home and told her mum that she met me. With excitement (according to her), the mother leaped and started praying for me.

She said the mother also told her a story of what I did, which honestly I cannot remember, even as I am typing this. The mother spoke about how my friend hasn’t paid for his exam then, and I ran to my dad, disturbed him till he paid for my friend’s exam fee. That is what children do, that is what children are all about​ until we try to change them into what they were not.

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Be a child at heart. Don’t take life too seriously, you cannot get out of it alive. Forgive easily. Reach out. Be accessible. Be fun. Be social. Be lively. Be kind and most importantly, be alive.

There was a man who lived, who never laughed or played, he never sang, he never even smiled or prayed, and one day, when he died, his insurance was denied, for they said he never really lived, so they claimed he never really died.

Thank you for your time.

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My pen doesn’t bleed, it speaks, with speed and ease.

Still me,

Olawalium; (Love’s chemical content, in human form). Take a dose today: doctor’s order.

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