Kids on the telly!

Methinks that I am on a roll; have been putting down a post nearly every other day! Hope this phase lasts; I’ve had enough of that drought of words!

Most of the characters on the telly are really immature. Maybe that’s what makes these sitcoms tick. Watching people make perfect asses of themselves in the most mundane of situations. This includes characters from all the popular sitcoms: Friends, Everybody loves Raymond, Seinfeld and others. Most of these guys act immature when it comes to handling relationships, negative emotions, quirks in others as well as their own selves, issues. They seem to have somewhere gone out of sync with their natural selves. Except for three characters: Joey (Friends), Phoebe (Friends) and Kramer (Seinfeld). I can’t help thinking about how natural these guys are. They are in complete acceptance of their situations, their friends and more importantly, their own selves. They are the only characters who’re totally comfortable in their own skin and it’s been proven on more than a single occasion that Nature supports them. They are creatures, natural and unabashed about themselves and they’ve managed to retain that child-like quality of innocence and enthusiasm which is utterly lovable. Too many people, in the process of growing up, lose these wonderful qualities and turn into jaded cynics, capable of sarcasm and nothing else. It’s one thing to be childish and quite another to be child-like. To possess that kind of curiosity, acceptance and enthusiasm… all the growing-up in the world can be totally traded. It isn’t even as if growing-up amounts to necessarily gaining wisdom. Too often, a grown-up person just knows the *correct* paths to tread, knows the right people to call… Just ends up becoming *worldly-wise* and not really wise. The journey of Return to Innocence is well worth it, I believe.