Tell me 5yr old...whats your secret?

So, Alex has been sick for the past couple days...it's a not pretty chest congestion somethingorother, so she has been coming in to the office because she can't go to school. It's been fun, definitely had it's challenges...but for the most part she was content to just curl up in someones chair and watch SpongeBob reruns on nick.com. I absolutely loath people that use TV as a babysitter, but...we all had work to get done lol. So, yes...I broke my own rule..but just this once ;)


Anyways...today I was thinking about kindergarten and how much fun it was. Painting, building, mushing, learning, and recess! I know as adults, a lot of us look back and say.."If I only knew then what I knew now, I would have napped no questions every day!" But, we didn't. As kids we hated nap time! Alex is 4 and in preschool...and she hates it too!


That got me thinking. Was it just a mater of we didn't want to follow the rules, or was it something more? Why didn't we want to go to sleep? Even at night, I know most of us wanted to stay up longer than we were ever allowed to. What has changed? Yes, we all have our "workday" and other things in our life that cause stress. But if you think about it...we also had those things in Kindergarten. We had our full (or half for some) day of school that while fun, was still time we had to be in a certain place, for a certain amount of time, doing things we were told to do. And we had plenty of stress! Monsters under the bed, getting that new toy, who we were inviting over to play that afternoon...it was alot! And yet, we still never wanted to go to sleep. 


I like to think that it was a sense of wonderment about the world we lose as we get older. Things become mundane, and lacking...and so does our interest. We're no longer seeing things with fresh eyes...life becomes a series of repetitions, with a few bright spots sprinkled in. 


If it is the "wonderment" factor, how does one go about not losing it in the first place? Or as with most of us, get it back? I like to think that I'm maybe at a 10yr olds level..I love life, and everything that everyday has to offer..but I find myself really, really wanting a nap in the middle of the day, even if the day has been absolutely awesome


Well from now on  I say, fuck naps...finger paint!