When you’re a child, the whole world is a blank canvas. Every situation you walk into is a sandbox, waiting for you to shape it in your imagination.
As early as kindergarten or elementary school, that sandbox is turned into a cage. Adults pluck metal bars into the ground from above, like Zeus throwing thunderbolts from Mount Olympus. The bars are rules and every single one takes away a little of that blankness.
At first, we laugh. We don’t understand. We bend the bars into a jungle gym and climb on it. But with every slap on our wrist, we dare a little less. Until we’re fully conditioned. Sworn in to society’s code of conduct.
“We spend the first year of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 18 telling them to shut up and sit down.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Screw that. I want my blankness back. I want to look at life with fresh eyes and an open, un-opinionated mind. Not do things because “we’ve always done them this way.” Half the time, society’s unwritten rules don’t even make sense.
Just think about the following six things. Try not to scratch your head.
Walking
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