Salamanders, children, and adults

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Today I barely did anything productive. But as I was walking outside to go to my car to go work out, my very productive father called me over. He found a salamander while he was weeding and gardening and his reaction was probably the funniest thing ever. If you dont know my father, hes kind of like a tough guy, im the strongest in the family person, but he was like, "David, look at this, do you know what it is? It's so cute... haha. we have to raise it." I laughed and thought to myself, is this my father? Here's my dad that I thought of as the iron pillar of manhood my whole life calling a salamander cute. haha it wasnt as earth-shattering as you think.

It got me thinking. I wondered how such a little animal could create such a reaction from an adult. It probably triggered some kind of child hood emotion that my father had or something, but i also thought about myself and my peers and everyone. Now that I'm growing older, about to face the "real" world, a lot of my concerns are about looking older and acting older. And im sure that a lot of other people that are in the same time of life as me feel this too. We feel that theres this invisible standard that we have to meet as we become college students, and growing up is definitely not a bad thing. Especially for tools. Tools need to grow up and drop out of effing tool academy, haha.

What I'm trying to get at here is that you have to feed your inner child, mentally. If you fed it physically youd probably just stock up on candy and soda and get obese. Obesity is another topic for another time. You have to realize that sometimes, trying to seem mature and all has its limits and you have to have fun once in a while. Where does my basis come from? How do I know this is good for you?
Well, if you saw the look on my dad's face you'd probably understand haha.

_DavidSSSSKim_