Children Vs. Adults

Children know the secret of handling any forthcoming disaster. They think about crossing the bridge only when they reach it. They do not sweat over and rudiment unnecessarily over the unavoidable problems and tragedies of life. No planning, no scheming, they just react. Just before the event of pain, they feel sad and shout and scream, even five minutes before they can laugh and enjoy the moment, it is all fun but for few moments of suffering.

Where as the grown ups, undergo tremendous amount of mental agony just thinking about the problem which will occur one year later. Those few moments of suffering and pain is lived for the entire year, we extent the period of suffering as long as possible. We imagine, grumble and curse thus transform any small negative event into a tragedy of the century.

As children our strategy of encountering problems was straight forward, simple and effective. We never allowed it to spill over into the realm of fun and joy. As grownups, we indulge in too much of planning and have become the schemers, and made life as miserable as possible.

Children’s style of facing the happy events is just opposite to their strategy of facing painful events. In case of joyful events, they anticipate and wait eagerly for it, thus they extent the joy and happiness and stretch it as long as possible. And the grownups rarely extent the happy moments, they think being happy is childish and being miserable is the sign of maturity.