Open Up Yourself To Others
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Children are perceived as cute largely due to their innocence and unfiltered self-expression, contrasting with adults who hesitate due to fears and insecurities. This innocence and congruence can carry into adulthood, allowing individuals to engage joyfully with others and create positive environments. The document emphasizes the importance of maintaining childlike qualities while balancing adult responsibilities to enhance interpersonal relationships and overall enjoyment of life.
Open Up Yourself To Others
- 2. Why are little kids so cute?
- 3. One reason is they are totally innocent. When they express themselves, they have no ulterior motive, like many adults.
- 4. They also don't have a lot of fears, like many adults.
- 5. We grown-ups tend to get an impulse to say something, but then we imagine all kinds of horrible things that might happen, so we back pedal a bit, in our minds.
- 6. Then we say something that's less than 100% congruent.
- 7. Kids, on the other hand, are pure congruence.
- 8. They're not like, "Part of me wants to run over and see what that red shiny thing is, but another part is still kind of tired out from this morning."
- 9. They see something they want, and go after it.
- 10. I used to know this guy in college. Always smiling, always making people laugh.
- 11. Always making some lighthearted joke about any particular situation.
- 12. Never putting anybody else down, except when it was perfectly clear it was a good-natured joke.
- 13. Always with over the top facial expressions and gestures.
- 14. And ALWAYS surrounded by girls.
- 15. This guy was the total opposite of the typical "player" type you see on TV or in the movies.
- 16. This was a guy you just enjoyed being around.
- 17. If there was a party, and you knew this guy was going to be there, you wanted to go.
- 18. This is what happens when you carry that child like congruence into adulthood.
- 19. You have that congruence, but also the responsibility of being an adult.
- 20. You don't censor yourself because you're afraid how people will respond, you only censor yourself because you honestly don't like saying mean things about other people.
- 21. But the funny thing is once you spend just a little bit of time expressing yourself like this, all those negatives ideas in your mind about others tends to vanish.
- 22. Since whenever you show up, people are always so happy to see you, you suddenly think of everybody in at their best.
- 23. It's like you project this bubble out around that everybody is happy to be in.
- 24. Of course, this isn't magic.
- 25. You still need to think and act and plan ahead, and be careful how you use your energy and resources.
- 26. But it sure makes life a lot more fun.