“As a kid. You want to be treated as an adult with the autonomy to make your own choices. As an adult, you want to be a kid who doesn't have to bother about a thing.”
The ironic cycle. Yes?
However, on careful observation, you realize how both stages are intricately intertwined
As a kid, it is assumed you do not have any autonomy whatsoever. But, is this really the case?
While at that stage you may not have had the autonomy to choose what you eat, wear, or where you go, there are actually very important decisions that only you (as a kid) could have made.
To be respectful and courteous.
To go to school and take your studies seriously.
To be kind to people.
To assist your parents and siblings.
To take on extracurricular activities that will boost your people relations and management.
To have a daily schedule that combines studies, house chores, rest, exercise, and outdoor games.
See? 🤷🏾♀️
You definitely didn't see those coming. Did you?
But these are actually decisions you can make as a kid that does not require you to become an adult before you can make them. Matter of fact, taking these decisions as a child makes you a better adult, eventually.
Why?
They become habits you formed from childhood and as such will be tough to let go.
An adult who is kind, courteous, knows how to keep their house tidy, can co-habit and work well with people, and of course, made it out of school with good grades because they were studious from childhood. And lots more.
I know it may sound weird. But, a whole lot of who we are as adults is largely dependent on those seemingly-minute choices we made as kids. They largely form our behavioral patterns now.
Maybe take a trip down memory lane and see how much your choices as a child is influencing your life now as an adult?
Nostalgia? 😉
We become the habits we’ve practiced for long 👌