Your Inner Child.

Many of my peers have written about how nature-centric Emerson is, and are writing about how flawed our society, especially our schools, are. My topic is similar, yet completely different. I am focusing on how professional and almost inhuman our society has come. We don't see it as much here, but the world, especially America, has become so centered around maturity and being serious and robots all the time. As Emerson encourages us to embrace nature, I say we break free of this humorless charade and embrace our inner child. Be immature. Of course we should practice moderation in all things, but the work till you die course of our society (as Mason said), is so bleak and void of just plain, unadulterated fun. It should be okay for us to drift around Clark's with the tiny shopping carts and to play tackle football in Wal-Mart (true story). But we are taught to "Grow Up", to tie and beat our inner child, to shove them so far back into our subconscious that we forget they're there. I get told to "Grow Up" and to be mature every day, simply because I strive to make otherwise boring tasks more enjoyable for myself and everyone around me. Yet, for some reason, we have been raised to resist a joy and shun those who spread it. I feel pity for those who tell me I'm immature almost as if it's an insult, because they are never going to get as much enjoyment out of life as I do, even if they conquer this materialistic society and own every physical possession there is to own. We have lost sight of what is really important, that being happiness, and (at least as I see it) having a sense of humor is by far the fastest way to get there. I wholly embrace the saying that if you have fun wasting time, your not wasting time. Lift yourself up from the monotonous seriousness you have been born into. Don't conform to the miserable people that tell you to "Grow Up". Live a little bit.