Phases of Life

Phases of Life

Perhaps the happiest days of our life are those during infancy – days of unbridled joy and insouciance. You don’t have to worry about work, or responsibility, or anything at all. You are mollycoddled and taken care of. You are so naïve and oblivious to your surroundings and can get away with the most outrageous of activities. To me, a timeworn, tired adult, childhood seems to be a phase when I was perpetually dazed, not bothered about anything and leading a perfectly placid life.

As we reach our teens, peer pressure catches up with us. Some even give in to this pressure because they want to be liked and feel coerced to change their attitude and follow the herd.

And finally when you reach adulthood life’s complexity overwhelms us completely. We wish we could go back to the simplicity that we enjoyed as children. We look in vain for what we never lost in the first place but which simply got obscured by the concerns of the present. And sometimes we forget that all we have to do is ask.