As a child I remember looking up to high schoolers, and people in their 20's thinking they were so grown up. But odd enough, I feel like the older I get, the more childish I feel. I feel like the 7-year-old me understood life, love, and importance more than I do now. As I am 21, going to college, trying to figure out my life, I have no idea where that's going to take me. Yet as a child I was so blind to difficulties but so understanding of small virtues in life.
As I've grown I feel like the only way to maintain sanity it by allowing yourself to be a child. Adults need to think less, and trust more. All too often I'm stressing out about stupid things: the newest one being my hair turning orange when trying to lighten it. It's something so stupid but something that society looks at and judges. However, orange, green, blue, or rainbow hair has no dictation on an individual's worth. So why is it that society will look at the blue haired girl walking down the street and label her intellect or worth upon her hair color?
Society is screwed! Everybody thinks too much, trusts too little, stresses too easily, and lives too seldom. Why is it that there's been worth initiated with appearance? This is 2016 and skin color, hair color, sexual orientation, and freedom of speech are damned means of worth. People are people and should be treated as so. But something has been lost since you, I or your neighbor next-door were five: Judgement has consumed and hazed worth of others.
Through society yelling at people constantly and telling them they are inferior for being themselves, it eventually dictates their image of themselves. Humans weren't born to judge. They were born to love. Judgment is an acquired lifestyle that everyone is guilty of. However, if everyone simply let go and allowed their mind to revert to the innocent childlike state in which they started this world with, it would be a better place. There wouldn't be this stupid notion that "you aren't good enough" or "that's stupid," people would be chasing their dreams. There would be less fear, and more greatness. Love can honestly cure the earth. It can cure you. Once understanding your worth, and allowing yourself to cast away the stupid judgements or the labels that have been placed by other people will be cast away. Then there would be a greater understanding of people just as people rather than forces out of their control.
Because if I've learned anything in this life, no matter your age, you're simply a big child trying to figure everything out, and struggling to do your best to be you. And in concluding, I'd like to simply say that there is no real conclusion on this topic. Life is crazy, weird, and tough. But something that's helped me is to simply think less. Judge less. Laugh more. And love more. We are all just big children that have had time to create ourselves. So create the best vision of yourself. This is your life, and even if you have no idea what you're doing, take a deep breath and realize NOBODY DOES! Then smile and keep on keepin' on because that's all you really can do.
