can some one please direct me to my childhood?

i miss it dammit. where does childhood go? can you ever get it back?

 

no, you really cant get it back. but you can have fun either way! you don't need to be a child to have fun. its all mental.

but trust me, your still a child! haha

 

Once we reach a certain age and then we step on an oil slick and slide all the way to our cold cold grave.

I remember my childhood like it were only yesterday. Now I am an old and weary.

 

Dude, I think you can lose your childhood, but you can never lose the child in you.

 

i will always have this child in me. always always always., i love me child in me.

 

i'm afraid i don't quite entirely understand what exactly it is that you miss about it. and it doesn't GO anywhere. like the growth rings of trees, if you learn and gain anything as you go on, they are added to the child you were. like the layers of an onion, those inner layers that you were, are still there. they haven't "gone" anywhere.

you may have subconscously occluded them, and now go even further then occlusion by trying to pretend conventional assumptions are some sort of reality that the're not. to overwrite what your real childhood actualy experienced.

that's what a lot of people, maybe even most people who buy into the dominant culture, do. maybe you HAVE so completely overwritten what would have been your REAL memories had you made a point to not throw them out with the bath water as you grew older.

not everyone does you know. reality is to accept that there is always a mix of the painful with the gratifying, at ANY and EVERY age.

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Hey themnax What a cool reply, i loved it!

 

I dunno why but lately I've gone back to 'liking' the things I liked as a child.i.e. Vinyl pop L.P.s,1970s U.S. t.v. cop shows, R Whites Lemonade,Mars Bars, 1950s-1970s bikini clad pin -up girl magazines!.:drool:

 

Gotta hand it to themnax. That really was a cool answer.
Anyhow, my childhood sucked royally, and I don't miss living through it one bit. Mind you, it wasn't as bad as most of my teenage years, but things are getting better now.

 

Second star to the right, and straight on until morning!

You may not BE a child anymore, me either. But that doesn't mean we have to grow up!

 

Second star to the right and stright on til morning! I got rid of loads of toys the other day, some I don't remember and some I was like "I refuse point blank to get rid of that!" And some are now back in my room, like [size=-1]Orinoco the Womble[/size]

 

if you really want to find it, just strip away the layers of self deception you've been braiwashed into hiding it under (whether by belief or deceptive and illusary alures of immediate personal gain or generaly some combination of the two), and there it is!

you can't expect to find it by evading this step, and i think that's what the problem is with people who claim they can't find it. but if you do this, well then there it is, right where it's been all along.

i think most of us, at least in u.s. dominant so called western society, are prehapse distracted from being able to do this easily by what we're surrounded by, and by our emotional attatchment to these illusions we've been enculturated to be comfortable with or just aquired a familiarity we mistake for peace and comfort with them.

it is just a matter of stepping back from familiar assumptions and emotional attatchments to them, that have nothing to do with morality or real gratification or anything else, however much many of us have somehow gotten ourselves convinced that they do.

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Ummm... Im your age, I dont feel like a child any more, but I dont mind. I just like this, have more obligaions, study harder, think about your life and plan it. To be child forever - sounds boring!

 

Where did it go?
It got put on the back burner, pushed aside, to make way for responsibility.

Yes you can get it back?
Yes.
You can get it back a little at a time.
A new love will make you feel like a child in some ways again.
If you have, or watch over, small children and let loose your inner child and play with them. Play dolls, play cars, play hide'n'seek.
Take the kids to an amusement park and ride the ride with them, eat the junk food with them.
Listen to them and try to talk on their level.
All these things can bring you back if you let them.

Then it's back to reality and beeing grown up.

 

That dude that played Rosco on Dukes of Hazzard said we're all kids at heart. He said he didn't know how to play a comical role like in Dukes. He went on that he would chase his little kids around the house and say, "Coochy Coo, I'll get you!". That's where he came up with the funny sounding noise he would use on the Dukes (coochy choooh coo coo, we're gonna get them Dukes!)

So, even grown ups call upon their childhood for help. People in comedy are often the ones who manage to retain the most joy and enthusiasm from childhood.

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