I’ve decided to switch the Advice Series to Tuesday as Mondays are incredibly busy for me these days. After a week of hiatus – me being in Poland and all that jazz – we’re back with the second installment of the series. Enjoy!

Hi guys, I am Magdalena from the recordologist. When Karen asked me to share a piece of advice on her blog, I jumped on the opportunity to do so for two reasons.

1. Her blog is one of my favorite blogs.
2. I instantly thought of something I was given four years ago when visiting my mother’s church.

It was Christmas, and the yearly ritual consisted of a festive service followed by a gift exchange. When I spotted a pink bag with lighter pink stripes, and the words Victoria’s Secret printed on it, the eighteen-year-old inside of me jumped with excitement. Somehow the thought of a body-mist and a Victoria’s Secret lotion made me feel sexier. Like it had the power to officially make me an adult…

An adult. My own director (I thought).

Surrounded by this cloud of independence, and feeling of adulthood, I sprayed the sparkly bodymist on my wrist and smelled it, shocked to find out that the feeling of adulthood I expected didn’t come over me like an avalanche. Is this what adulthood is supposed to feel like? Sparkly and sticky? I wondered.

After recovering from the shock, my eyes rested inside the bag. There was a card. I opened it and read the words written on it:

Never lose the inner child in you.

This sentence became part of the strings of my heart, and words to live by. As young adults we spend so much time living in the future, and trying to grow up that we forget what it feels like to live in the present and to be perfectly content with who we are and what we have.

It takes being a child to know that it’s okay to rest in a bigger power, and not worry about the future. Celebrating the present and having fun with each day like it’s our favourite childhood game should be the way of living.