Today I happened to overhear two, what looked like 18 year old, guys talking about getting together after the fast. It was all so formal and uncomfortable that I could only assume that one of them didn't like the other one. Why else would two teens extend such a sober, adult invite? It just seemed wrong somehow. This got me thinking about the way adults extend invites to hang out and the way kids do it.
Kids don't think about whether the house is clean, whether you have enough snacks, what kind of entertainment you need, whether you're in the mood for company. All they care about is enjoying having someone to hangout with. Someone to dream with and have adventures with. Extending an invite for kids is a simple question : come over. It's not even a question it's a valid assumption.
Yes the argument is that kids have no responsibilities, no jobs, no money, no kids, ... the list is endless. But it stands to reason that if everyone has those issues, we are all still the same people with the same things in common. So the playing field is still the same. So where does the complicated invite come in? Do we not like each other. Or are we so competitive that we cannot show weakness.
Seems to me that the older we get the more we complicate our lives. We are striving towards simpler lives but end up getting tangled in the complications that we create. Each time you second guess yourself, make an excuse, put things off for another day, you're moving further away from a simplistic life. Simple lives are more black and white than grey. You know that you know the answer before you say it. It's that filter in your mind that changes the initial thought from an honest, fearless one to a complicated fearful one.
Keep things simple. Keep things kind. Spend more time loving each other. Peace.
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