Being a twenty year old college student, I've concluded that our minds are set to see reality as strictly as possible. We know that trees are trees, two plus two equals four, and that there's never ending battle going on throughout the world. Our brains are programmed to face it as it is and not change it to please our desires.
But what if that tree was a super big dinosaur chasing after us and our friends? What if two scoops of Mommy's ice cream and two scoops of Daddy's ice cream makes a large sundae to share with four scoops of ice cream? What if the ongoing battles were pirates sword fighting in hunt for the buried treasure?
This, my friends, is the mind of a four year old.
This Christmas break, I have been blessed to come home to my four year old cousin and play with him non stop. I have observed his creative tactics and can't help but admire him in awe (it's currently hard to write this article as he's sitting at my feet building a race car plane boat with legos). I mean, his imagination is INCREDIBLE! Believe it or not, it's creativity like his that makes our world more positive.
What if we were to think more like him and other imaginative four year olds? I'm not saying convert the library into a gingerbread house, but don't think of the library as this dark pit of negativity that most college students make this place of doom out to be. Thinking like a four year old can bring out the brightest optimism in all of us. We may not think of the world as this severely cruel place that our brains make it out to be.
My cousin said not too long ago that we can make things whatever we want them to be.Who would've thought that a four year old's advice would be one I would take? We all go to school to study one or two things, and we practically get consumed by those things. We see the world through the eyes of what we are studying, which makes the world dark, bland, and one dimensional. Why don't we instead make the world what we want it to be and filled with limitless opportunities? This is ultimately a brighter place to live in.
Well, I'm going to go now and tickle my cousin and play dinosaur adventure with him. He really knows how to heal my heart, which is exactly what this world needs. Healed hearts. If only everyone could start thinking imaginatively like a four year old. What would our world be like then?