There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
When I feel there's a door open, you always walk through it.
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.
There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.
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.'
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.