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I have noticed recently that I don’t feel like I am getting older. Sure, the outward evidence is there and yes there is enough gray hair to notice the effects. However, the inside of me still desires much the same things that I did when I was younger. This has left me with a question… do our childhood dreams leave us when we get older?
Having a childhood dream to start with
There many different types of childhood dreams. There is the dream to play cricket or football for your country. There is the desire to be an astronaut and so on. However, there is another area of desire altogether that hangs around us and won’t leave. This last desire that sits with us wherever we go. When I was young I used to imagine myself playing cricket for my country. Yet, I never really wanted it. Playing cricket for me wasn’t fun. I was slow to catch on to the basics of the game and even now watching the longer form of the game tires and somewhat bores me. This desire to play for my country may have been just a passing desire of childhood fantasy. However, there may be something in your childhood that’s hung around. Something that gave you some concept of you. More on that later.
Knowing the ever there childhood desire
There are some things that are the air you breathe. You may have found that inward desire hard to conceptualise when you were a child because everything seems so simple. When I ask my kids what they want to be when they grow up they simply say what it is and don’t worry about it. To them it’s a done deal… taken care of. Maybe because it’s a deferred future event and perhaps not really something that makes sense yet. However, the reality of it is this: there is something in you that surpasses all other childhood desires and still remains. I have it… so do you. If you don’t have it… chances are you have buried it or maybe you are like some people I have met who didn’t discover it until they were much older than me. Either way, look for it… it’s there.
You don’t have to think about what you know
The other thing that dawned on me, was that you don’t have to think about what you know. When you are inwardly confident of something… you don’t need to be convinced. When you know something intuitively you know it. There are few times in your life when you will find this to be wrong. We experience cognitive dissonance sometimes because we fail to allow room for the intuitive side of our beings to surface. What we don’t realise is that us is us and even if we surpress us for a season… us will surface! I like to think of it this way: Life is a crude mix of predestination and free choice! Sometimes things are predestined but only if you make certain choices… or sometimes certain choices lead to predestined realities. Sometimes things are totally random… so there you have it.
What remains is the desire after all is lost
The problem with impossible things is that they are impossible. Bringing a desire to pass is a hard game for most of us. It takes training, time, patience, philanthropy, prejudice, pride and injustice. However, in the final battle it’s us versus us. We can either spend time looking for avenues to begin releasing these inner desires (so long as they are LEGAL) and move into what I have come to know as “liberation”. Here’s where my predestination versus choice bit comes in again: choose to follow that which you know you have to do. If you don’t, it will still be there next year about this time when you are thinking about it again!
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