Tom Hanks looks remarkably like that child

In my current kick of watching movies that came out when I was a kid, I popped in 'Big' last night.

The first thing I noticed was how very many jokes I had missed when I was a kid. What a dirty movie. Much funnier now, though.

The next thing I noticed was how much I identified with the situation. I often feel like a kid just pretending to be an adult. Yeah, I'm fully grown. Yeah I have facial hair. Yeah I pay all of my own bills and have a real job… but I'm still just a kid, really. At least that's the way it feels.

It's not such a bad thing. I think it means I just haven't let the weight of the world crush my soul yet. And as shocking as it may be, through all my cynical jokes and broken ambitions, I've remained an optimist. And the way I see it, kids are essentially optimists and adults are inevitably pessimists. To be an optimist and an adult you either have to be a big kid or an idiot. I'll gladly take big kid.

I could go William Blake and launch into an analysis of innocence verses experience given that was a large theme in Big, but it would be pointless. Experience may be valuable but that shouldn't stop anyone from being innocent as long as possible.