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Who, on the whole, do you find happier: children or adults?

Posted on Nov 16th, 2007 by Jean-Francois : Noheadman Jean-Francois
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 16, 2007:

To answer that one, we need to define what is an adult and what is a children. Not so obvious if you agree that you can still act like a child and be 40. If your a prisonner of emotionals patterns that took place in your childhood and you just don't realise it, well, doesn't matter how old you are, you're still a child. A child is often impulsive and what makes him happy won't necessarily stands on solid ground. I think a real adult is someone who understands that what makes him happy comes and goes, so his conception of happiness is related to the unknown, just when you are a kid and everything is new... It's a matter of perception, even if for real, everything is always new.... The happier at last will always be the adult who is (isn't) like a child... And the child will always be the father of the adult...
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2 days later
Soul said

so true…. and so many people say that children are 'in the moment'… they are but there is ego identification, and not usually much acceptance of things as they are… and that goes on until we see that this causes so much suffering and we get sick of it.
Then, as you say, we grow up….
We grow up when we wake up…

:)
Soul

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