What do you do when you lose your "Inner Child?"

So I've come to the conclusion I've lost my inner child... but the sad thing is that I really have no idea who that was/is. What do you do when you lose your inner child, and how do you rediscover that part of your being? I was trippin on some heavy shrooms in Amsterdam this summer when I basically realized that something was missing from my life. I don't think it's faith, 'cause I'm a very spiritual person, but the more I talk to people, the more I'm realizing that something is missing... the part of me that just wants to have fun and hang out and be happy. It seems as though I'm ending up more and more like a bitter old man, and I want to fix that.... anyone know how, or can anyone give me some advice?

 

put his picture on your inner milk carton

 

hmmm.. just a shot in the dark, don't mean to offend, but were one or both of your parents alcoholics?

 

yeah, but so am i... or so all my friends say. I wouldn't say one drink a day is quite alcoholism. My mom used to drink all day when i was a kid, and she took that shit out on me at night, so it's not like i got to be much of a child to begin with. Good shot in the dark tho.... i ended up grounded from age 9-14, and by other parent's standards, i was a good kid up until i started smoking a lot of pot... ironically at age 14. Never put it down and never got caught this Feb at 20. I guess I was lucky for about 6 years... My family is a lot better now tho, and my mom is completely sobered up and I only drink one drink a day on average if even that. I'm Scottish anyways... it's like a part of my life... I dunno if that really has anything to do with it....

 

the inner child was a lie, u r turning into the real thing now...

 

What do you do when you lose your inner child?
Kidnap someone elses...

 

Hmm... thats a good question.... i dont know really..... find some younger friends? just do whatever is spontaneous, that may seem childish, but fuck it, if its fun, do it. lol today me and my friend were sitting in his basement and we started like a domino fight, were we'd throw dominoes at other dominoes and try to flip them over, we just busted out laughing. I would hate to lose my inner child.... if i ever lost mine, i think my life would be over.

 

Have kids..hahahahaaaaa.

Hell if I know. All the other inner children stopped playing with my inner child when I told them to get their lazy potheaded selves off my couch and get a job

There's always antidepressants.... they'll make anyone act like an idiot again.

 

You didn't lose your inner child bro, you just hid him somewhere safe and forgot where you put him. Better go back and see if you can find him, he must be pretty bored by now. Be forewarned: you might have to walk through some dark, scary places fulla old demons (hint:they're old, you can probably kick there asses by now) to get there, but hey,nothing more fun than a good Quest I always say.

 

NaykidApe, I like you.

 

Thanks to everyone who commented here. NaykidApe, I'm diggin this whole quest idea, and damnit... I have a sledgehammer... demons are goin' down! Thanks for the advice!
Peace

 

I concur with what Mr. NaykidApe said...

Everyone has that inner child with in them..You just have to know how to release it...
I dont know if that makes sense or not..

 

i'm not sure i understand your predicament, but it sounds similar to something i have gone and still go through to an extent...maybe the key is acceptance and some balance maybe? like accepting that a lot of the world has lost their inner child and just digging on it anyway, since you are powerless to change that... but not accepting that way of life as the way for you...hope that made sense

 

umm, that's DR. NaykidApe if you don't mind *puts on stethescope and shows Mystical diploma from Bongloadia School of Krazology (written in crayon)*

Good morning class. Todays subject is Ms. Mystical shroom. Ms. Shroom has been painstakenly persuing her inner child and has made a breakthrough by locating her in her right nostril.
She is now attempting to get in touch with her inner child *long pause*
She is now eating her inner child..wait!!
Darn, now I'll have to go in *puts on snorkel and wheels in gynogolists table...*

 

hahahaha, that was the best ever

 

I think relaxation is a big part of it. Look at children, they dont take anything too seriously, and when they do (like when they get hurt) usually they get over it quick and go back out and play. If you take everything so seriously, you're doomed (not permanantely, but for as long as your serious).

Comedy is the compliment to faith: faith without humor is dangerous fundamentalism. In the same way, you have to have humor in your life as a whole. Otherwise you go through life all serious and dead inside. Comedy is life. Find your humor where you will, but find it. It is within you (it's one of our remarkable human characteristics, everyone has it, they just gotta find it). Like Naykid Ape said, it's a quest.

Drinking as much as you do could be having an effect: alcohol is a drain on the body's systems, chemicals, vitamins, etc, and is a powerful depressant. If you can, cut back on your intake. At least until you've found what you're looking for. Good luck to you man!

 

Haloween is a great time to get back your inner child. Go TP a yard or something you haven't done since you were a kid!

 

hehe, sorry to say that if someone Toilet papered my house, i would whoop their ass Thats a little extreme, i am sure he doesnt want to pay a fine to find his inner child

 

lol.... yeah, last time i paid a fine for my inner child i almost had to go to the big house... i don't think the inner child would like it much there! I think a lot of this seriousness that has been plaguing my life recently is coming from two or three different things, and man... you guys were right... The inner child was there, it was just kinda hidin out till i figure out how to deal with those things. The first was this lonliness i've had since i dumped my ex a few months back. I don't miss her... not one bit! but i think i've been really careless with how i filled that void in my life. We were engaged, and we were really close, but then i realized that the relationship was unhealthy and a lot of it was determined by one person, so i figured that i would get out before things got too bad. Try having someone you love push you away more and more each day for a month or so, and then tell you it's because they thought they were pregnant, but didn't want to tell you because it didn't matter. That's a lil' messed up I think. A lot of my other things seem to be coming from trying to deal with that. I know it's stupid, but you know how you're always like "well, was that the one for me? Nah, couldn't be.... but....." - yeah, i was still going through some of that. So i got really awesomely drunk the other night, suffered a hangover from hell yesterday, watched the Princess Bride.... my favorite movie from when i was a kid (Inyigo Montoya.... "you killed my father, prepare to die!") and I realized that I have basically been avoiding the obvious things that need to be worked through (mentally).

So it turns out he was kinda hidin' out there in the back of my mind and chillin with his legos or something.... who knows. I did, however, buy an exbox.... oops, i mean xbox after i let that one relationship go, and that seemed to appease the inner child for a while. I NEVER really played video games as a kid, ( I was always grounded for one reason or another....) so I think that might have been a good move! Now it's time to figure out who all wants to go outside and play ninja turtles before my mom makes me go inside and get a bath! Thanks you guys!!!

 

I have a shirt that I love that says "They talk about my drinking, but never speak of my thirst. Old Scottish Proverb".

So true.