Every time someone asked me what kind of person I would want to share my life with or asked me what I love the most about my friends, I always said that I want someone who never lets the child in me die. H onestly, that’s what I treasure the most about people, with whom I can simply exist as I am, without being told to “act like an adult” or “behave a certain way” . I’ve realised how important it is to hold on to those childlike parts of ourselves, and to surround ourselves with people who don’t pressure us to let them go, because no matter how much we grow, earn, mature or become stable, there is a part of us that still needs healing . A part that wants freedom, laughter, and the ability to just be without thinking too much and that part is our inner child. I remember in school, my English teacher told me something that I didn’t understand then, but value a lot today. She said there is a difference between being childish and being childlike. While being childish implies being im...