I was eating out tonight. I've eating out quite often lately coz I got so much to do at work and always worked late. Anyway, at the restaurant, a 10 months old baby at the nearby table drew my attention... actually to be more correctly stated, I think I drew his attention instead coz he was staring at me the whole time I was eating. I would make funny faces, like sticking out my tongue and raising my eyebrows, and then the baby would giggle. His dad would move the menu back and forth on the table and he giggled whole-heartedly also.
Such little minute things for adults but for a baby they would elicit so much joy and happiness. Shouldn't we be a baby sometimes and find contentment and enjoyment from little things? Or have we grown so sophisticated that we view those little minute things with disdain, yet we once had found joy in them, laughing and giggling when we were still a baby.
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Not that I've taken any course in psychology, I just feel like babbling, ha. I heard that human brain learns and remembers when it encounters new things. Somehow this act of learning provides a satisfactory feeling, the driving force for the evolution of our intelligence. Perhaps this is related to how we get amazed by extraordinary things and laugh at comedian's funny act which one is "not supposed to" perform in real life. In this sense, a babies brain can be stimulated much easier than an adult's, thus a baby can be more contented than an adult can at minute things, eh? So may be it's not that bad to be a "boring" adult. Now how do we amuse ourselves at this stage of life? Visiting the everchanging nature, traveling, reading books, all sort of "brain refreshing" activities. There are still so much more around us that can make us "giggle" in our heart.
indeed
very true Andrea...
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