Around Halloweentime we tend to change our minds 1893242 times regarding what our “winning” costume will be for the year. It’s always fun to look back through pictures at old costumes we’ve made….but even more fun to dig up those old costumes and go on new adventures with them.
We just so happened to watch the movie version of one of my favorite childhood books, Where the Wild Things Are, this past week. We then decided it was both appropriate and necessary to have our own little wild forest friend adventure of our own to satisfy the “wild rumpus party” itch we caught after watching the movie.
Is it absolutely silly to put on old costumes and play pretend?
“Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.”-Moshin Hamid
“To be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.”-Wayne Dyer
Yes. It might be extremely silly and childlike; but I always find that after spending an afternoon like this: Pretending and being silly… I find an outlet of inspiration hit me and I remember that nothing is impossible.
The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‘forever young at heart.’
-Wayne Dyer