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As adults, or a young adult such as myself, society sets us a deadline to be met everyday, every week, every month and every year. There are usually huge consequences for when we fail to meet such deadlines. If I forget to transfer my money to my mother's account by tomorrow, all the cheques will bounce and there's a 30 pound penalty for each cheque; there's about 20. If I don't get my History coursework finished (man I haven't even started...) tonight, then I'm more or less screwed. Everyday we try to meet several deadlines in order to make it in this modernised world and as a result, we become machines i.e adults.

Children do not have time limitations. They make the time to move in the same pace they are which actually makes accomplishment a lot easier. For example, reading music. I started learning and performing music 2 years ago when I was 13. By this age I had the mind set of an adult, or a young adult. And I found sight reading to be the most difficult thing I've done, besides doing the splits. I found myself having to forget about any such deadline and to think that I have all the time in the world to be able to read 2 bars in tempo. When I'm reminded that I have to be a sight reading maestro in 6 months, everything falls apart. Unfortunately I took this mind set with all my other subject too far and ended up to be the master of procrastination.

So my point is that the most important thing children can teach us is to take it slow, and that the world isn't going to end if we miss one deadline. They also teach us to pay attention to smaller details and absorb everything life can bring without having to make the effort to get them. Children teach us the very simplistic value of "right" in its very essence and "wrong" to be forgivable, and not even that wrong at all; "it's ok." Children teach us to smile. Children teach us to be happy.

On that note, I'd hate to have a child. He'd always point out how wrong I am and how I'm going to die of stress related illnesses such as Psoriasis or Heart Attack.

And I can't wait to travel.

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