My spiritual journey has given me the chance to me more childlike as I was when I was an actual child, because as a child, so much of me came from fear or aspects of my dad. I wasn’t “me.” My love for marital arts, weapons, etc., came from a response to the dangers of this world. I liked all the same things he did. But think back to all the times when you felt like you were a little version of him. And things you said and did were informed by things you’d think he’d say or do.
Getting the chance to shed the ego and rediscover my actual nature, which is that of a child, gives me the chance to do it a second time around. But not with my personality and interests being a response to society. I just get to “be.” To experience joy and love and fun.