Don't worry my dear. Nothing much changed till now. Trust me. You are still the same as before when you were younger.
You used to laugh a lot. When I said a lot, it doesn't mean you only laugh at jokes. You literally laughed at everything you see. Especially in those serious situations. But you see, nothing changed even now. Do you remember that moment when your boss was scolding you for your mistakes but you were trying hard not to laugh as if it is not a big deal?
I know it was hard for you to grow up. All those reality hits you hard enough to forget how you used to be. But eventhough life was hard, you are still trying to get up from every fall to reach where you want like you used to get up from each and every fall even if it hurts so much when you were a child.
Remember how you got sad when you see your parents giving more love and care for your siblings? We have grown up this much but it still hurts when you see them giving more attention towards your siblings. Age is just a number, right๐
When you were a child, you get curious about every little things and collect some weird cute little things. Don't you have that sea shell in your cupboard that you had collected 10 years back? I still have many friendship bands and greeting cards I got when I was 10.
You like to do a lot of paintings and crafting when you were younger. Will you just put that waste paper away when you have nothing to do? No. We do make paper cranes and boats in it like a child.
Looking back nothing much really changed. You are still that same child who looks at the moon with so much curiosity. You still ask questions randomly which might be a complete nonsense. You still enjoy to never get caught by the waves at the sea shore. No matter how much you have grown, there will be some naughtiness that remains in you. But the fact is, you try to mask it from others. Because you are not a child anymore and you are not supposed to do such childish things, right? Thats where you are wrong. Its completely okay to behave like a child sometimes. To cure your curiosity. Even when the life gets harder and harder, try to be that child who you used to be. Try not to get lost yourself in the process of growing up.