Yes I am supposed to be this serious cardiologist, an athlete, a dad, healer etc. But I am so much more. When i am driving, once I have finished texting, emailing and chatting on the phone ( just kidding), I fall into a state of my childhood imaginations. I am not the only guy who does this by the way.

I replay many old TV shows in my head and pretend that is what I am doing. For example. Space balls. I pretend I am traveling at “ ludicrous speed”. Or I am James Bond and I have bad guys chasing me so I need to release “tacks” or create an “ oil slick”. Or I am on the bridge of the Enterprise space ship in Star Trek and need “ shields”. Better yet I am flying in Top Gun and I have an annoying driver in front of me so I switch from guns to “ missiles”. Or I need to “eject” like in “knight rider”.

Well I decided to make use of all the non functioning buttons on my dashboard and label each one with the fantasies of my choice ( see picture). So if you ever see me on the highway and you actually see me releasing missiles or turning “invisible “, or going to “warp speed” know that you have accidentally stepped into my vivid imagination.

The point of this is simple. As we all grow up there is a little innocence that we leave behind. Our inner child. That same child who could spend hours day dreaming on the potty or imagining outer worlds with their bath toys in the tub or just watching rain drops fall in a storm along the window pane. As adults we admire our kids for being kids but we get angry at them for being “childish”, when we want them to do adult things and “just grow up”. The part that we are angry at is ourselves. For having left that nature abruptly and never said a proper goodbye to little humor her, yet they never went away. They were pushed aside and suppressed.

Release your inner child. Even if it means just going and playing out in the grass, being funny, dancing in the rain, kicking the water at the seaside. Anything that reminds you and brings up your inner child to play, for it is the wounded and forgotten inner child from which many of our adult problems begin. It is time to heal.

Of course it is advisable to drive safely while traveling at “ ludicrous speeds” with “ invisibility cloaks” shooting “ missiles” and initializing the “flux capacitor” to go back into time to give a hug to your lost self.

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I love you