advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love
You get bigger so you can store even MORE love and appreciation for the world inside of you
My brain finding weird joy in the mundane things:
“some kitchen sponges ARE real animals! They probably don’t count as ‘stuffed’ though? They’re preserved by drying, not by taxidermy. Funny how they’re squishy to hug, just like a plush animal. Does a kitchen sponge count as a SpongeBob plushy? Could I grow a real live sea-sponge in a SpongeBob mold before I dry it and use it for washing, like how you can grow vegetables to be shaped like cartoon characters? …Oh, and Blorbo and Squimbus sound like SpongeBob characters. They’re a blorb-fish and a squid-bus. I love them”