The world is a playground. You know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
That is from the Jim Carrey film Yes Man. And it got me thinking.
I wonder if this is true of me. Was there ever a time in my life when I thought the word was a playground? Something fun and exciting and not a sequence of death traps?
I don't think so. I think due to my childhood experiences I've always seen the world as a scary place, and so I closed myself to it. I put up walls and shut people out, even though I was desperate for attention and affection. I sat in my corner, very still, with books and films and dolls for company and I led a sheltered life, not because I was spoiled, but because I couldn't be persuaded to leave my comfort zone.
So what I'm doing now is not really a rediscovery of the good old thrilling times.
It's a brand new discovery.
A whole new world.
A series of wonderful adventures waiting to be lived.
And for once I'm not staying inside.
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