One Apple A Day #630 - Being Kidful
A lot of colours and the word “kidfulness” shine on my BeTheChange card this morning. This card is one of my favourites, so I sat down to meditate on it.
By the way, kidfulness is not even a proper word. It’s not in the dictionary. And maybe this is why I love it even more. The word itself is an act of kidfulness.
When I was a kid, and my vocabulary was limited, it was common to create new words and names to reference the things for which I didn’t have one.
Anyway, I picked this card. And I love it so much that I wanted to write something meaningful and exciting.
So, I thought it was a good idea to start from my childhood. I spent some time retrieving memories, but nothing exciting emerged from that exploration. A dead end.
Then I thought that “kidfulness” is a kind of superpower. I set out to explore this direction, thinking of what would be the characteristics of a superhero with such incredible power; kidfulness. Another dead end.
Time was running out, and I had nothing valuable to share. Just some failed experiments.
And then it hit me. Isn’t that being kidful? Experimenting with things. Because for a kid, everything is new, and nothing makes sense, yet. Everything is experience and experiments and play.
And sometimes what kids do have no sense, apparently. Their activities lead to no results from an adult point of view. However, they are tremendously important. And they are not scared to share what they achieved with others. Until we, adults, bring judgments in the picture and the idea of success and failure. So, here I am. After fifteen minutes I haven’t reached a point, I’m not even sure there was a point to achieve, but I’m sharing what I wrote anyway. As a kid would do.