Being a kid was awesome

As my first post I'd just like to make some opening statements on being a kid.

Being a kid was great, around every corner, every curtain, and every door held something new, or something unexplored. Literally everything was interesting because we didn't know anything about anything.

Now I'm growing up, I've seen pretty much everything there is to see in an average American town. There's grass, fence, bugs, dirt, houses, pavement, people, cafe's shops, streets, trees, benches, aaaaand cars.

That's quite a bit considering the variety of things you are in each of those categories, but... it's all consistent, it's all predictable. When we look at a variety of things for too long, everything becomes bland, and we eventually take it for granted.


My whole life I've had the curiosity of a 2 year old. When I was young I would look behind curtains to see what mysteries it may hold. I would look under the couch to see what treasure was buried, peak or sneak into rooms or hallways I've never been before, and tear apart items to see what mechanisms ruled our world.
Now I like to just browse the web to learn of an eternal amount of information waiting to be explored. The difference is that instead of learning directly through application or experience, I'm just reading it. Nothing really sticks as well as when I was young.

As a substitute for exploration I build, invent, write, and theorize. I do these for no other reason then discovery.

Basically I feel like the world has become so uniform and predicable,  that I end mentally bored, and make my own odd/uniqueness for me to indulge in.

And I wonder if everyone else does this too. We grow up, when early on we explore and see the brand new world as it is, as naive and gullible as we are, there could be any amount of amazing possibilities around every corner.
My theory is that the human mind, when not presented with enough brand new input to work with, or brand new ideas/systems to compute, ends up creating it's own, therefore it still entertains itself, while inadvertently creating systems/ideas for others to explore.

Well, what doesn't help my theory is the fact that nobody is exploring or creating anymore! People grow up, take everything for granted, then just accept life as it is.

Nobody wants to live in the real world except kids anymore, because they're the ones who are still exploring.

Video games, inventions, novels, music, art, etc... every single individual piece is something every man on earth has never seen, read, or heard before. Every piece is completely unique in it's own right and has a completely new universe to explore.

- Using the term "universe" very loosely, as in any working system or organization of things/ideas.

People who don't do this are simply those who were crushed by societies degrading antics early in their lives, - OR - they continue to explore in the world of creation but never create anything of their own.

- Referring to societies degrading antics as things such as public education; "Do as I say, not as you think, as I am thinking for you." Basically the public school system has taught that there will always be someone there to think and provide paths for us instead of us doing any important work or decisions ourselves.


So basically fiction is a way people can play god because they can't find anything better around them.

Wouldn't it be great if everyone participated in this mass movement of perpetual creation, invention, and fabrication?
Like if there was even more new ideas and processes for us to explore to the point where people actually go outside, see things they've never seen before, and feel entitled to continue exploring?

-Oh, and if public schools would stop shunning creativity or ingenuity. That would be really cool too.

Childhood was fun.