Child-self.

A chip

off the old block.

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Who should you

resemble?

Who is your

role model?

Who do you want

to

grow 

to 

become?

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No matter 

how old you are,

you are always

someone's child.

More than

a biological child of our

parents,

in our soul,

there is a

child

 in

all of us.

As we age,

we pursue

growing

intellectually, emotionally and behaviourally.

We are taught,

that as we

 mature, 

we put away childish things.

But that does not mean

suppressing

your childlikeness,

your child-self.

The degree of your maturity

does not equal to

how serious you look

and

how much you work.

But

  some of us

really think it does,

because of our

role models,

or

the people

we're trying to be like.

As we get older,

we

value 

work 

more than anything else

because we tend to

measure our 

self-worth

with our

work performance reports

and

pay cheques.

We seem to

  need to prove ourselves 

to everybody,

and strangely,

especially people we don't like,

again and again

what we are made of.

This is the

adult-self

in action.

The man or woman

who

means business

and

is now

 independent.

In short,

hasn't this man

become

a slave to

work?

Who is he 

trying to please?

He has to

work hard to

earn 

his value.

Who is he 

trying to prove to?

He is a mere

servant

to the social system.

To this man,

play

 is out of the way.

Work 

is most important.

His child-self

is dead.

He is too busy 

to spend time with people,

too busy

to appreciate and enjoy

 them,

too busy,

just too busy.

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Is this maturity?

Is this the kind of life,

such 

a bitter and boring life,

maturity

produces?

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What is maturity

then?

Work and play,

adult-self and child-self,

which is more important?

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