when you are a young child you live with…

Keyword living when you are a young child you live with freedom. They laugh, cry, say whatever they want, and never worry how they look. When they laugh, it's with their entire being, children are like this until around 3:00 when they become self-aware. Until then they have no self-image to preserve. They are just busy experiencing the world. Then having no self-image becomes a problem, and over time they develop their self-image and experiment with various images to see how the world will accept them. From that point forward, children grow up with a constant awareness of their self-image it's been much of their time maintaining and protecting that image. This means that most of the world is made up of people's project itself image which is made up to promote the image they want to promote. We are really meant to preserve the wondrous, expressive child in us throughout all of our lives. Is that child inside whose eyes are open, seeing the world, it's beauty, and its needs to live fully.

— from Time

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