Exploring Life with Childlike Wonder
I’m sitting on the balcony in an Orlando resort, overlooking the golf course. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and the temperature is perfect. Three men are putting on the green and then move on to the next hole. Entering the course behind them are two small boys. They run across the golf course and explore the terrain. They tumble to the ground and roll, eager to experience a great big world. They run to a sand trap and skip across it to the other side.
Uninhibited they explore the course as fast as their little legs can carry them. One minute they’re racing a golf cart and the next they’re picking their way through the rough. Full of energy and life, their arms swing as they climb a hill, then plop to the ground rolling. Free, limitless.
In and out of sand traps that hold no meaning for them, but fun sand boxes. The golfers would see these traps as negative, a deterrent, something to keep them from winning the game. But the boys don’t interpret them that way. Quite the reverse. The boys are outside the game. Beyond the confines and limits of the man-made rules. For them, the green isn’t reverenced. The traps aren’t pitfalls and the rough is a fun place to explore.
Perspective is everything, isn’t it? What if all the rules and limits I place on myself meant no more to me than rough and traps to a 10-year-old boy oblivious to the game of golf? What joy, elation and energy might burst forth for me if I set aside my inhibitions and preconceived notions about the man-made rules of life and business?
From this perspective might I see challenges not as adversity, but as fun places to explore?
These boys simply are. There’s no grand objective, no pressing goal. Happiness and exploration are their objectives. They do no harm to others in this pursuit, but with childlike wonder and innocence, they embrace the world. Grateful, giddy to be alive.
Is this why Jesus admonished us to be like little children? Inquisitive, open, teachable, unburdened by men’s perceptions?
About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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I love this one Marnie~witnessing these experiences of childhood is part of why I know motherhood as a critical piece in my growth and freedom! Perspective affects us more than we realize.
I just finished a book called “Biology of Belief” by Bruce Lipton, PhD. He is a leader in the fairly new science of epigenetics and discusses in the book how our perspectives affect us down to our very cells (fascinating stuff~at least to me;-)
It was a very liberating read which solidified more deeply what I already knew: that the nature/nurture debate is not taking into consideration the most important piece~the power of perspective and choice.
The older I get the more I see the importance of perspective. One small shift in perspective opens up worlds of possibility. Very liberating.
You’re singing my song, Marnie! It’s ALL about possibility and the play of perception. Shifting your perspective and point of view is an amazing adventure. Great insights!