Starting today, I am living like when I was 5 👦🏻

dayenjoyer
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read
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30 years ago all my thoughts were nothing but happy and cheerful ones.

My mind would be thinking about ways to have fun, then more fun.

If I am not in school, I am skate boarding, running, signing, laughing, swimming, playing with my teddy, eating hot dogs, feeding monkeys and watching Donald Duck.

If I am in school, I am sharing my sandwiches with friends, playing football, making fun of the teachers, pretending I am listening in class when I would only be thinking about things to do later to have fun.

Anxiety, depression or any sort of such ailments was never heard of or experienced during my childhood.

There was no worries, no fear and certainly no sad moments.

They simply never existed.

Thanks to my parents who concealed such reality from me at a young age.

100% of my time as a kid was nothing but fun, joy and cheer happiness.

Why?

Because my mind was designed at the time to only think about the now; the ability of worrying about the future or the past simply wasn’t incorporated in my line of thought as a 5 year old.

Can I now develop or to put it correctly un-develop my mind so it goes back to when I was 5?

Can I now not worry about a career, the bills, a wife, money and what’s going on in the world like. I never did back then?

Can I just go out and play and laugh and make funny faces at strangers and be myself at all times?

The photo on the left, I keep in my wallet in a see through pocket so every time I open it I remember to act and live like a 5 year old.

It’s been 30 years and when I look back it feels like 3 days.

When I am 65 I will look back at today and all I want to be thinking about then is how much fun and good time I had 3 days ago.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” -Mark Twain


my name is sherif and I will live like a 5 year old.

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