Parks Are The Cradle to Nurture Innocence-A Paradise “Not So” Lost

Every nation in the world recognizes the usefulness and effectiveness of physical health activities hence the obvious benefits of parks. In the United States of America, almost 38 Million people visit Central Park, New York City in a year, which means daily more than 90 thousand visitors come to this park for healthy activities. But parks have the most effective imprint in our lives. The benefits of parks extend beyond that of mere physical benefit.

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Why are parks important?

Social Benefits of Parks

Parks are the nurseries of our social life.  Every emotion present in a human brain is developed, polished, and projected here in the Parks. In parks we learn to love, help, admire, enjoy, imagine, cooperate, even eat or drink, behave, fantasies, dream, analyze, self-audit, relax, even cry or shout or deliver a speech, develop confidence, negotiate, listen, observe and the list goes on to infinite emotions of a human being. If you love watching movies or reading literature, “Parks” is omitted from the movies or literature then what exactly we have left with? The parks are the only place where an entire life could be spent without getting a victim of boredom, dullness, tediousness rather every day will be distinctive from the previous one.

Parks always attracted emit positivity, a place made of flowers, trees, green meadows, birds, and children can be anything but negative. If you think of “Innocence” for a moment and try to picture it, what else can you imagine in your mind besides these? The discussion will be mainly focused on this one feature “Innocence”.

What represents innocence?

The “Innocence” when a child growing her first milk tooth, the innocence when her two upper and two lower teeth grew and she smiles showing them, the “innocence” on her mother’s face when she feeds her when she holds her near her chest and my daughter sticking out her little pinky tongue to lick the milk from her mother’s breast. “Innocence” is when she drools with her smiley face, that drool is the strongest adhesive to bind the relations together. “Innocence” is when a child gives name to the things for the first time, my daughter creates a sound “Deee” when she needs something, when she gets angry that “Deee” turns into a mixture of “Deee, dooo, patay patay” type voices and when for the first time I heard “Daaa-dee-oo” (Daddy) from her.

But! the “Innocence” cannot be categorized in any form ever, what you think of the expression your mother face has when you come to meet her after a long time? What you will experience on her face when you overeat her cooked food? Can you name that emotion when she sees you fighting over the dinner table with your siblings to keep your favorite dish to yourself only? Or you bring a gift for your siblings when they least expect it.

I have experienced this “Innocence” on my father’s face when I brought him his favorite pack of chocolates, which he left eating years ago due to a lack of finances. Those tears rolled over from his old eyes were carrying the “Innocence” I have never seen before in my life. My mother was holding his hand, standing next to him, and at that very movement, I realized the true source of Innocence.  “FAMILY”. The rust of materialism has covered us so much that the shine of “innocence” no more glitters on us anymore. Let us try to polish ourselves by using the following simple process.

The innocence of childhood…

Children are the best example of innocence and we all agree on it without any dispute. They represent this in all of their activities from sleeping to playing and even when they are crying. The reason is that they have not learned to manipulate yet, they have only one mode of “straightforwardness” encoded in them by default. If they are happy they will laugh straight. If not, they will cry nothing in between is known to them. This is a value we lose with aging. We prosper every other mental and physical feature as we grow. But in this our “Innocence” keep on declining at a much faster rate in today’s world. This is where the benefits of parks come in. Just enjoy some time in a park to relive childhood and its innocence.

Why do we lose it over the years?

The advantages of getting innocent are far greater than losing it. The most attractive physical advantage is that you remain young, and when you can stay young for life what other benefit is required. It is not a myth, medical research says the major cause of aging is anxiety and stress. Both of these are present in every other human being who has “aged” from childhood. Children have a marvelous trick for every negative situation that has happened to them: “Leave it and Forget it”. It’s a medical fact that when you feel stressed wrinkles start appearing on your face and body skin. Your brightness and softness start evaporating as in stress all your body is producing is heat and toxins which eventually eat it all.

How many times have you ignored negative situations that happened to you? A mistake of another person? A loss occurred to you due to someone else’s mistake? A traffic jam or an impatient driver? An annoying argument between family?A friend’s mistake? How many times you have left the situation before it got worse? Have you ever given way to other drivers regardless of the fact he was doing wrong? How many times you have tried to actually forget the negative?

Parks to preserve innocence…

Try to sit in the park and observe “innocence” around you. Absorb the laughter of the child when the mother kisses him or her. Try to listen to the sounds a child makes when he plays with his father. Speak sometimes as children do. Try to count all the trees of the park; reach heights taller than you. Rollover on grass or do backflips or jumping. Soak yourself in rain and stain your knees, elbows, and clothes with mud.

Try to live the childish dream again once in life. It is the best baby trick for reclaiming the Paradise “not so” Lost-The Innocence.