Children At Heart

I'm sometimes a sucker (someone easily taken advantage of, or falling for something) for sappy (emotional, sometimes overly so) movies. The other day I watched a Disney movie called The Kid. It was about a man whose young self showed up one day to ask him for help. The story basically was about the 2 of them (the man & his younger self as a child) trying to figure out how to change both their lives, or I should say, the life they shared.
In the end, I believe it was really about the both of them accepting who they are, and the man recognizing, and accepting, the child who was not only a part of him, but also who he still was.
Childhood can be a very hard time of life to live through, and many of us have experiences and things we learned about ourselves in childhood, that we would not mind being able to forget. And, of course, in our active and sometimes frantic adult lives, it is very easy to forget what it was like to be a child, and what childhood was like.
But we are still those children. And I believe it is very important to remember those children that we once were. They are a large part of who we are now. So we owe it to them, and to ourselves, to remember them, and recognize the child within us still.