I went to visit Chelsea today. It turns out she got stuck babysitting, so I went with her. Outside the house, I was hesitant, because I didn't know how the kids would take to me. And they were shy too, cuz they didn't know me that well. But in a matter of two hours, they really grew on me. The 8 year old girl was a very friendly outgoing type, so she took to me straight away. + she loved cats and making cat noises as well (they had a cat) so even more to bond over. Her 5 year old sister took a while to warm up to me, she was more shy. She even straight up said "but I don't want to ask her (if she wants to watch me), because I don't know her very well", which I thought was very brave of her (I would've never said that out loud when I was younger). But eventually she warmed up to me quite well, seemingly favouring me more than Chelsea at times. And by the end of it they were trying to stop us from leaving.
It was quite fun actually. Takes a load off your mind when you're hanging around with children, because they're carefree and you just play along with them. I find that kids are most likely the best human beings to hang out with. Best ones being around primary age. They can walk and talk and kind of take care of themselves, but they're young enough not to have their innocent minds corrupted by the ways of the world. They don't judge you by the way you look or what kind of background you come from, or what your grades are like. As long as you're genuinely nice to them, they will be nice to you (do unto others as you want done to you). And children won't lie to you to save your feelings or to get something out of you, because they haven't learnt that yet. If you ask them something, they'll give you a genuine answer, but not one laced with sharp poisonous words that hurt, they'll just tell it like it is. Something I think adults should be re-learn, I think.
I liked them. They were rather adorable, despite being quite loud at times. They'll drag you off to show you something really cool, or so that you can join them in their next fun activity. At random times they would like to ask riddles, most of which I answered correctly (especially proud of answering the cat questions, cat lady at work :p). And of course at other times you humour them by saying you don't know (but then I genuinely didn't know haha), like those really punny jokes that are so dry they're funny XD. At some point they even said "why do you know everything?" (because I answered most of their riddle questions like "why is the sky blue?" (o god the answer I could come up with for that)), to which I had a slight grin on my face because they thought I was smart. They were also easily entertained by pretty much anything we came up with. I did the "kiddie ride" thing with the 5 year old that my dad used to do with me, and she loved it. As well as the piggy back rides :3 (who doesn't love piggy back rides?).
Being with them reminded me how much fun life can be if you make it so and made me reminisce about my childhood days a bit.
It's damn tiring keeping up with them though. Haha.
