DON’T GROW UP! IT’S A TRAP!

Madam, 

In Matthew 18:3, Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” 

Now let us take a long look at children. How do children do things? One may say they are childish and stupid, well that’s true but one thing that I love about children is that they don’t take anything seriously. 

So if we adapt that and try to be like them to never take things seriously we will go far. I know it might sound like this is probably stupid or crazy but just continue reading you might find this interesting.

Now let us look at how parents or let’s say, grown ups do things. They take everything seriously, even the stupid things, even things they cannot control, even things that stress them out big time, even things that make their lives miserable. 

They take everything seriously, even things that will make them live to regret it or live their whole life in fear all the time. 

They take failure, for example, so serious that they record it down as something to never try again because they know they will fail. 

They take offense so seriously. They take regrets so seriously. They take situations they cannot control so seriously. They take negativity in life so seriously.

Now let us look at how children do things. First of all, young people do not listen. They do the exact opposite of what you say. 

experience

Why? Because experience is the best teacher. When negative people tell us we will not make it, let us not listen to them.

Let us allow experience to teach us. Another thing, when children try to stand up, they fall. But they keep on trying again and again. 

They never say: “I tried standing up and have fallen so many times so now, I conclude that it is impossible for me to stand up so let me just chill and let everyone else know that if you try standing up, you will fall.” 

Negative people are like that, they just stop trying altogether and then they try all their best to make sure others become like them. 

Let us be like a child, let us never listen to them, let us remove them from our lives.

They are a massive roadblock to our future and success. Let us stay away from them. We should not even try to prove them wrong - that’s a toxic energy, let us remove it!

Children also play. They play all day long like nobody’s business. We should play too. In other words if we play, the kingdom of the Lord is ours! 

It sounds strange right? Think of it like this. Children don’t give up they never listen to negativity they never catch feelings or take things seriously. 

We too should never give up on our goals, should never listen to negativity, should also play and never take things seriously or negative situations serious in our lives. 

In order to understand this, let us talk about playing. In a game there are always two expectations a win or lose. Losing does not mean that winning is impossible. Let us never conclude that we can never make it in life because we lost the first time we played in the game of life. 

Remember that children, the first time they tried to stand up, they fell. 

Everybody falls the first time. If we adapt the spirit of a child of not giving up if we fail countless times, we can achieve great things in life. 

In fact that is when we can realise that everything is possible on the other side of countless failures.

My dad once said to me: “Life is like electricity. In order for current to flow there needs to be two wires, one positive the other negative. 

“If you remove the negative wire, there won’t be flow of current. So is life my boy!” 

Negativity or failure is part of the recipe in life. It should not make us weak and stressed or angry. Rather, let us use that energy of being stressed and angry to try again. 

Failure

In order for a soccer player to be able to kick a ball with the right foot, the left foot should balance him out. 

Failure should be present to give us balance in life. In order for a seed to grow, it needs to be buried in complete darkness. 

Without that darkness it cannot grow. Without negativity and failure in life we cannot be matured/transformed.

If you spank a child, he will cry and a few minutes later will come back to you smiling happily. Now imagine if we all act like children, hold no grudges, kill everyone with kindness.  A wise philosopher once said: “Anger is a punishment we give to ourselves for someone else’s mistake.” 

Why torture ourselves? Let us let it go it’s in the past and we cannot change the past. Revenge is for adults. Children are always happy and its simply because they don’t over think things. 

They don’t allow anyone to put down their spirit. We too should not allow anything to disturb our peace of mind. 

We should not worry about the future or stress about the past. Let us live in the moment that is why it is called the ‘present’ because it’s a gift. The enemy will steal our present moment if we worry about the future or stress about the past. Happiness is here and now that’s why children are always happy, they live here and now. 

The following feature or character of a child is one of my favourite. They ask a lot of questions, question after question. 

Do you know why? It is only because they are eager to learn and they accept the fact that they don’t know everything. They accept the fact that they need to be taught. They don’t feel inferior or embarrassed that they don’t know something. They are curious but not judgemental. They are teachable. 

Children love everyone. Jesus also said: “I give you a new commandment - love one another.” 

Imagine if we all love each other in this planet. Crime, violence, divorce, murder, poverty, corruption, cheating will all be history. 

I cannot steal from someone I love because I don’t want to see them in pain and miserable. 

I cannot revenge on someone I love because I will forgive that particular person right away. 

I cannot kill someone I love. I cannot cheat on someone I really love. 

I cannot watch someone I love live in poverty - I will try by all means to help. I cannot be corrupt to a nation of people I really love. 

If I love someone, their happiness comes first than mine. If we love each other, life can be a paradise.

Polite Mkhabela

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