Kids know how to live in the now. Right up until they’re about thirteen or fourteen years-old you can ask any kid her age and you’ll get an exact figure: 7 and 3/4, 4 and 1/2. Ask an adult the same question and nearly invariably you’ll get an answer that goes something like “I’ll be 32 next December” or “I’ll turn 28 in April.”
Are kids really that much more in the present than adults or does our attitude toward aging change that much as we do more of it? Instead of offering more priviledges — higher allowance, later bed time, more freedom — do we as adults come to look at it as a chore, just one more year closer to the inevitable?
I think kids are just better with the present, probably because they don’t have any responsibilities to speak of; there’s no worrying about when the mortgage is due, or when the Visa bill is due, or how the retirement fund doing? Their lives are more immediate than an any adult’s.
Someting to remember as I get older.