As a people, one of the mistakes we collectively make in our early childhood is the hurry to grow up. Why are children so eager to grow up, and why do i think of this to be a mistake?

An average child is full of imaginations, curiosity, and dreams of the future. All of these are healthy traits to see in a child. They associate these dreams with adulthood, they believe the adults got it all figured out. From this narrative, one could easily deduce why any normal kid would want to grow up so quickly.

Studies have shown that people lose their curiosity and imaginations as they get older. I have narrowed down a major cause for this decline to the fact that adulthood is associated with having everything figured out, hence less curiosity, which in return could have an impact on imagination.

The mistake any adult would make, is to be so grown up and forget how to be a child. Even though we age forward, the future ages backwards. Time as a concept is a very controversial subject matter, but for the purpose of this article, i would try to explain this the best way i can, as briefly as i can. This is very tricky to understand, so i would recommend you read with a clear mind. Time is relative. As individuals, we perceive time forward. But our future as a specie, ages downwards; this is why we use concepts like descendants, to describe the future. As you get older, you slowly become the past, while the ones coming behind you becomes the future.

This is something all creative minds understand, that adulthood as a concept is indoctrination. To truly be creative, which is at the center of all great ideas and great inventions, one would have to think like a child (from a state of pure curiosity without restrictions) and reason like a man/woman.

©️ Victor E. Ojei, 2024.