Good morning. I'm Eddie Panero. Welcome to your world within daily. In this episode, I'm going to talk about holding on to your inner child and why chasing fireflies is about much more than a yesterday with a journalist.

And one of the things he asked me was during this time,

what's one thing we can do to sort of keep our sanity to help pass the time?

And an answer I gave, I gave a few, but one of them was dive into the more creative things,

the things that, you know, in the midst of our normal day to day, we usually

neglect because they're not essential to our job or money coming in or putting bread on the

table, right? The things that, you know, just naturally in the pecking order, they're at the bottom.

You know, it's a chance to be creative, write the page in the book, the, you know, the song,

you know, start the little business, whatever it is, things that you've wanted to do.

They've sort of been buried within you for a long time.

And it made me think about what I believe is one of the greatest tragedies of the human experience.

And it's abandoning those things that are so

natural that feel so good to us when we're kids, right? The not worrying about societal expectations

or, you know, what others will deem to be impressive. We just go out and we run around and we do what we're inclined to do.

And as we get older, we completely detached from that. And it just felt so funny to be like, well,

now we're in a situation where we have no one to impress. We're sitting at home by ourselves. So do what you

want to do. Like, here's an opportunity to do what you want to do. That's an insane thing to say.

But it's the reality. From this chaos can come clarity and a chance to sort of recapture, reignite a flame that's been lost.

Not because you're adding more, but because we've cut away.

We've cut away so much that we can ask ourselves, you know, the really important questions.

And so when I, when I answered that yesterday, you know, now, just the way it was phrased,

now, look, you're in a situation where you're not running around doing 50 million things

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