Kid at Heart

There is something to be said for the sheer innocence of a child; the way the outside world (which right now is in literal shambles) has no affect on their day; the way things like paying bills, getting to work on time and doing a good enough job to keep your job never even cross their minds. They want to play. And build really tall buildings out of colored blocks and then knock them over. They want to throw sand and eat worms and play pretend tea party and dolls. A child is a window to a simple world.

I dated a guy one time that said the reason we were so compatible is that I, like him, never want to grow up. And today, after a business lunch that went two hours longer than predicted, two hours of arguing about last night's Presidential debate, the economy and whether or not a woman is qualified to be our next VP (strike that, whether or not Sarah Palin is qualified to be our next VP) I found myself back at my desk dizzy, drained and wishing I could throw a pretend tea party at my desk complete with pink plastic tea cups and kettle.

So instead, I opened YouTube and watched a cartoon. It's the one where Bugs Bunny plays the piano, that really difficult song called 'Hungarian Rhapsody No 2' and the mouse ends up stealing the show at the end on his own mini piano. Bugs actually gets up on the piano and hops down it like a real bunny, on all fours. He picks up all the keys and lay them down. He gets a phone call during the performance and claims he doesn't know who "Mr Liszt" is. Clever. Smart but yet totally silly all at the same time.

Growing up, it was always one of my favorite Bugs cartoons. If DVR existed back then, it would be permanently saved on my list for easy access whenever I needed a fix. I only watched it once because it is over seven minutes long, but the entire time I was giggling and smiling just like a child. For those seven minutes, I felt like a child stuck in a big kid's body. Kind of like the movie Big but without the whole falling in love with an adult part. I was totally transported. And it was...awesome. I don't ever want to grow up. I want to watch cartoons with my kids because I want to not because I have to. Man, being a kid is so much fun!