WHEN do we lose our unhibited youthfulness? Is it those horrible awkward teenage years when all of a sudden anything fun is just not "cool"!? I don't know! WHY do the majority of people lose it? The Bible says that when we are adults, we are supposed to act like adults - but I believe that we have changed what it means to be an adult. Does being an adult mean you always have to be insecure and care what others are thinking? Does it mean you can't be involved in something over the age of 18 unless you are a professional? I don't think so!
It is okay for a 5 or 10 year old to dance on the dance floor at a wedding by themself - but you'd rarely EVER see a 20, 30 or 40 or even 50 year old like that (unless you assume they are extremely intoxicated) ---- or unless they have been able to FREE themselves from being a slave of their own mind - which is just uncommon.
And yet you would see 70, 80, and 90 years old out there regularly and think nothing of it! That is SO intriguing to me!!!! Why can't other people see this!? We are stolen of our joy but who is stealing it!?!? I have so much respect for the elderly and I really connect with them - because they live unhibited lives like children. They have realized that what society says really doesn't matter anyway.
Brandon and I are always the first to eat at the weddings so we can be the first on the dance floor. It's always the two of us and the kids on the dance floor for quite a while - nobody else joins in until much later in the night. It shouldn't be this way!
"Inhibited" according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is: an inner impediment to free activity, expression, or functioning: as a) a mental process imposing restraint upon behavior or another mental process (as a desire)
We are a SLAVE to our own mentality! It's a mental thing. All that has to change is your OWN mindset!!! So fight that mentality. Why do we have to stop doing all the things that are joyful and just plain FUN because we're not great at them. Society tells us that it would be okay for an adult to be dancing in front of everybody by themselves IF they were a good, professional dancer but otherwise it's not okay. And this isn't true in all cultures! It seems to be an American mentality.
Well I am fighting that mentality.... and at Jim & Jennifer's wedding tomorrow -- you better believe we'll be the first ones on the dance floor to get the party started! :)
Hi Randi: I have fought that fight my whole life. Once I won a prize at Southwest Airlines for doing the hoolahoop in the airport while waiting for an airplane. I won a pair of flipflops. Life goes one with joy.
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