Being a Kid at Heart

I'm going to keep my thoughts succinct this month and perhaps from now on. There is wisdom in "keep it simple, stupid," so here it goes:

Just because marketers and advertisers and other professional experts of divisiveness decide that one object should be marketed to children and another one to adults, doesn't mean it would be wrong or improper for an adult to enjoy something created for children, and children for something made for adults. Otherwise, we are letting marketers and advertisers define our lives and interests, rather than doing it ourselves. It's one thing to subjectively dislike something, but it is quite another thing to do so because someone has told you that to enjoy it would be "immature." What is more immature than letting someone else tell you what "you" are expected enjoy?

Discrediting the validity of what one expects a child to enjoy in the process (as "childish" or immature") demeans children and disqualifies you, and if done to any other group of people, would be called prejudice. Prejudice is an edifice formed by sexism in length, racism in width, and ageism in height. To uphold ageist prejudice over peoples' lifestyles and then be otherwise open-minded, is to be building a structure of prejudice that is very narrow at the base, but still a mile tall. If traditional gender roles are no guideline for individuality, then traditional age boundaries ought to be no guideline either.

There is no shame in being a kid at heart. There are only those who enjoy life and those who don't. You don't need to be "rejuvenated" as an adult to be young, you just need to enjoy life as a child to be truly grown. Age is meaningless.