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We are all subjected to invisible machinery that turns us into blind consumers and functioning workers, machinery we know as the economy.

This inhuman machinery tries to eradicate the playful child within us, so that we obediently do what is asked of us. It starts in school. Increasingly, our children are treated unkindly, and in some schools they are terrorized and intimidated to such an extent that, eventually, they end up either in psychiatric therapy, in hospital, in prison or on the streets.

All this psychological terror is happening very subtly, in an underlying manner. However, I do not want to blame anyone here, neither the parents and the teachers nor the school authority. It is the entire education system that is in urgent need of transformation. Not all of our children react to the situation in our schools by rejecting school and refusing to attend. Most of them opt for an easy life and, following the example of the older generations, just meander along the path of least resistance. This is how society teaches our children to become yes-men – or, more to the point, it produces them for this purpose.

There is a big difference between wanting to be childlike or childish. Those who love life will always retain their childlike nature, because a certain childlike joyfulness, light-heartedness, curiosity and openness are part of life and the joy of living.

If you abandon your inner child, you will slowly stop living. You will end up just functioning, just consuming.

Many of us are very scared of being adult, the reason being a subconscious fear of responsibility. Subconsciously we believe that, as soon as we become grown-ups, we will have to shoulder harsh responsibilities and will lose our ability to live light-heartedly and joyfully. While as children we are usually untroubled by the harsh and serious side of life and have lovely stories read to us that bear no relation at all to real life, once we are young adults we are suddenly confronted with the coldness, brutality and loneliness of real life. This is one of the gravest reasons for so many young people to resort to alcohol and drugs.

We need to learn to treat adults with just as much affection, care and consideration as we treat little children – adults, too, have a soul, and feelings and emotions, and can feel very lonely indeed.

We should treat our fellow humans with as much affection as we would like to receive from them.