Simple joy

I didn't know where to put this post, in Taoism, Life, My Life Stories or what. I was just wondering about life while watching a football game when a commercial came on about a child's joy of small things. I love watching children for the easy way they simply enjoy being and seeing what's around them.

To me, it's often sad parents don't see that or see the opportunity they have to share and teach their children. To let them wander and wonder and be there to share their joy of the world. We know it's all about learning about the world. We know it's how they see themselves later, to see the greater world, the whole of their world, and who they are as a person. They become, and in becoming it is joy that teaches.

We lose that simply joy during our teen years as the issues and pressures of adulthood arise and everything suddenly become serious. Then we're adults, badly as we are at it in the world we know and face. And the feeling of simple joy has faded with the situations and circumstances of our life. Our reality of being has displaced joy and pushed it into just a memory.

Where did it go? Where is it still? Where is that child in us and the simple joy of being a child? Why do we keep it there and not in the present, in the moments of our life? What are we afraid of? Joy? Or what others may think or say about our simple joy of being and the world?