During the AfterBlack show yesterday, Elon talked about this younger self and said that he could not believe he was so “EMO”. He continued and said from this vantage point he would kick the ever loving shit out of himself. Fair… Many of us can relate and would be stomping on our younger selves like we were all named Ndamukong Suh.

I would like to reframe “EMO” in this case, and call it innocents. It is our innocents that we all look back at and laugh. All the … “How could I have believed that..”, “How could I have done those things”, etc, etc… All of those things, believes, actions were done but by the innocents.

But one of the great things about our innocents is that the purity and sometimes simplicity of our principles, dreams, actions. Often there is a sweetness associated with our innocents and it is present in all that we do. We see the world as it should be instead of how it is. Part of what happens with age is that those two things; how we see the world versus how the world is, the gap between the two lessen. Generally this is Awesome. When you don’t get want you want, you get experience. But there can be side effects that can make us miss our “EMO”, our innocents.

We have a choice, to embrace the jade that our experience can bring or to fight hold on to the sweetness of our innocents and absorb the experiences that life has given us.

That’s my 2cents

MrAyodeji

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