Why do we grow up to be boring? 

Not for those of you who still feel you’re still as happy as you were as a kid

I was having this conversation with a childhood friend when I got a mail from medium to write my first blog post here. You may have grown up in Alabama, Mumbai, Tokyo or anywhere in this world but I believe you can relate to what I'm going to talk about.

Remember when you were a kid, you had a bunch of cardboard boxes and for the first one hour you're exploring an unknown galaxy with your friends when you're suddenly attacked by aliens. As soon as you bring galactic peace you move onto diving underwater in your submarine, then on to racing, teleportation devices. Oh the fun we had with objects which had boring uses in real life.

I had couple of kids of my age in my apartment growing up, who'd come along with me to a public park where we'd play cricket. Now you don't have to know about cricket to understand this but like any other game it's exciting to play in large numbers. So what do we do once we reach the park, we look around for guys playing in small numbers, join them, form teams, come up with rules instantly on what basis scoring would be and what the winning factor is.

Now these are kids may be older than us whom we would have never met but there we would be playing in the sun with these random strangers as a team enjoying those hours like there’s nothing else in this world to live for. We would all have our moments and we'd leave parting ways with just a smile not even knowing if we'd ever have the fun of playing together ever again.

Now here we are, all grown up, judgemental whenever we meet someone new. You and I have probably have the same entertainment routine for few years now which would have bored the hell out of our 10 year old versions.

I still enjoy and savor the little things in life which at times makes me as happy as I was when I was a kid. I’m sure you have such moments too. I’m going to bed now leaving both of us these two questions, how long has it been that you had a long streak of happiness and judgement free relationships as you did when you were a kid? and why do we grow up to be so boring?