Recently, my wife and I had the incredibly great fortune to see the real, live Peter Pan.
His name is Cathy Rigby.
Yep, you read that right, ‘the boy who wouldn’t grow up’ is a grown woman who is nearly sixty years young. Read more about our experience here.
Ms. Rigby gets paid to act like a child. It’s her job and she does it amazingly well. Many adults have adopted the same role as Rigby’s: grown-up Peter Pan’s. Not pretty. Especially since most of us aren’t paid to act like children.
I’m not immune to this “Peter Pan syndrome” myself, but I am aware that childish ways can creep into my adult ways. It can be a fine line… knowing when to be child-like rather than child-ish.
Keep the wonder. Keep the excitement. Keep the joy. Keep the freedom. And be a grown-up about it.
