There are two kinds of Childhood Truths, and one of them is eternally true, true as any other kind of truth, adult or divine. It's that kind, the childhood kind that are true forever, that form the basis for Deep Fun.
It's during childhood that we learn what fun is for and games are about. During childhood that we follow the playful path whenever we are allowed to, without having achieved professionality, or certifiability, or even permission. It's what we do when we don't hurt. When we're not crying. When we feel so good that we giggle.
It's also during childhood that we contact and develop our "Inner Adults" - making promises, playing with acting like we're not playing. And as we got to grow up and up, we got better and better at this dialogue, until everyone believes it of us, almost all the time, and eventually, we believe it, believe we're not playing, too. Believe that all those truths we discovered in play have nothing any more at all to do with us.
So I, as an adult, have become a teacher of those particular childhood truth. And day by day my committment to teaching the playful path grows stronger, simply because we have so much to benefit from them, at this particular time in our history, now that we are all so officially grown.
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