Oh man, we'd be in trouble big time!
We'd say what we really meant, go to places we really wanted to, make friends with people we wouldn't normally make friends with, learn things we didn't know we needed to know.
We probably wouldn't live that long either, as we poked our fingers into electricity sockets or didn't turn around when we had swam too far out from the shore.
Obviously we have to think about consequences - but not as much as we do as adults. Before we speak we filter our words according to our setting, the people who are there. In the nano seconds it takes for a thought to travel from our brains to our mouths we have self edited and refined the words so that we don't offend (or conversely we REALLY offend!), we don't lose capital with one person while gaining it with another person and so on.
In other words we speak and act like adults. And life stops being the fun that it could and should be.
As a challenge today through #40acts I'm asked to remove the filter of 'respectability' that I place on my life as an adult and be more childlike: expressing appreciation and joy at those things that please me, challenging things that I don't fully understand or find offensive, and finding time to have fun. I might even take notes using a crayon!
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