International ‘Get to know Your Inner Child Day’

Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.

Imagine if there was such a public holiday as ‘Get to know your inner child’. What an interesting public holiday this would be!

It would be confronting, painful and eye-opening for many people.

It’s common to bury one’s feelings along with pain accumulated during childhood and youth. Yet this occurs at great cost to adult development.

Some people become angry and bitter, others are avoidant and live lives of isolation, still others become controlling or demanding. There’s no right or wrong, no accusations. However it’s all just unallocated pain that needs to see the light of day. A public holiday for people to befriend  the person they were as a child could change the world.

Maybe crazy and insane people like Tr** would be less crazy and power hungry. Maybe there would be less anger, fear and pain, less violence and chaos in the world if people fully addressed what happened to them when they were young and defenseless.

Of course, such a public holiday would be considered naive and even amusing to people who weild power. So fanatical are they about portraying strength, but real true strength only comes from uncovering and acknowledging darkness.

The problem of  childhood neglect and abuse and its mental health impacts on adults also underscores and highlights why protecting children is so important. Their identities are selves are fragile and forming. Adults who don’t address the demands of their inner child become the walking wounded hurting themselves and others. I don’t know if any of this makes sense to others. Thanks for listening.