We spend so much of our lives questioning who we are, what we want, where we should go, and the like. While we do discover new versions of ourselves through every experience we often forget the version who knows us the best, which is our inner child.
Like a great many other things, social media has made the topic of "healing your inner child" quite a trend. I do think it is a good concept in theory, however one cannot heal what one refuses to face, or does not understand. Similarly to the healing journey's so many of us embark one, we must first face our demons before we can even begin to think of how to heal them. In the case of our inner child, I have found that I have become someone my younger self would have wanted to listen to her and needed to defend her. Through self-reflection I have found that she, being my younger self, had answers to so many questions I've been trying to answer for years. The simple reason for that is that our inner child never loses their sense of wonder, their belief in miracles and magic and the beautiful outlook that sadly so many of relinquish as we get older. The truth is that you don't have to, you can in fact be a fully functional and successful adult while still hanging onto the spark from your youth. In my case I found that I had given up on so many dreams that my younger self formed and in doing that I lost part of myself and my sense of purpose. I've rediscovered old passions long forgotten, such as writing as a form of self expression, my love of take pictures, and more than anything my love for the ocean. Now I believe I owe it to both my present self and my younger self, to explore these passions and finally dedicate the time and energy toward them that I haven't been able to. If there's one thing I know for sure it's that while we can't know where these path will lead us, the destination will be rewarding no matter what.
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