1. Kids can sleep anywhere, anytime. It's awesome. Imagine how much sleep you'd catch up on and how much time you'd save taking power naps throughout your day. 16 minute carpool to work. Out. 3 minutes of TV commercials (for those who still actually watch live TV). Snoring. Waiting for your wife to finish getting ready. 26 minutes to dream of baseball. 59 minutes in board meetings. You get the idea...
2. Kids run EVERYWHERE. Not only is this more efficient in that it transports you to your destination much quicker, but it also saves you time at bothering with the 20 minute jog you were about to take before or after work. If the typical person ran everywhere, not only would they have tons more fun, I'm sure it would add up to miles. Less time next to uncle sweaty on the treadmill and more time with Mr.-whatever-you-do-in-your-free-time.
3. Kids can have fun doing anything. Being from California, I find myself at the beach or pool often, but I can only seem to last 1 - 2 hours before getting bored and going inside to do something else. Now I wonder what the heck I did for 9 hours at the beach when I was 10.... sandcastles....boogie boards... chasing seagulls... staring at the lifeguar... wait, no... Kids make up games, create fake friends, meet new friends ... they play with seaweed. Imaginations at wild.
4. Kids keep it real when it comes to food. Check out the kids menu at any restaurant. Hamburgers, french fries, cheese pizza, mac'n'cheese, bean burritos, some kind of animal-shaped chicken piece, spaghetti, and sometimes even peanut butter jelly sandies. Tell me what on that list you wouldn't eat? It's almost like kids broke it down to the lifetime basics and decided to just eat from there. Keeps the grocery list short, and makes things so much easier. Not to mention, kids could eat the same thing 8 meals in a row. Look at them little creatures of habit applying the concept of the assembly line to intake of their food! Again, so efficient.
5. Kids are honest. Brutally honest. Ask any mother and they have at least 1 story about the time their kids called someone out for being fat, disabled, ugly, smelly, having yellow teeth... Kids tell it like it is. No filter. The absolute purest of thoughts.
6. Kids are not afraid to get dirty. Jumping in puddles, playing with frogs, grass stains, dust, grease, bugs... Nothing to be afraid of, it all washes off. Ask a grown man when the last time was that he played in the mud. If he can even remember....
7. Kids get excited. Somewhere deep in the text of the manual of life, there is something that tells us that grown ups should tone down their emotions. What happens to the marvel? Tell me that a little part inside of you doesn't stop for a split second to think how much loose change you have handy when you hear the ice cream truck driving down the street... of course, then you decide against running outside for the sole fact that you would be the only one above 4'2" out there... but really, who would care?
The point of the matter is, adults are jaded. They give up, lose energy, get stuck in the grind, complain. They care what others think and let it rule their actions and reactions. I say, life is too short to not live as you want to.
Lucky charms and french fries for dinner.
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