I punched Michael in the stomach

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. -Kenny Loggins

Reading that really made me wonder what kind of childhood Kenny Loggins may have had. 

Me on the other hand have had my share of positive and negative experiences. There was that time that I stuck up for myself and a couple other kids by punching my neighbor in the stomach. He ran home crying and I though for sure I was going to get in trouble. I told my parents what I did and they really didn’t think anything of it, I also never was never bothered by that neighbor kid again. Then there was the time when I was 18, and one of my neighbors up the street who was a few years older than me, came up to me at a party and apologized for something he did probably 8 years before- when he and some other kids vandalized our backyard clubhouse. 

We had some really fun times, going to our neighborhood pool, playing rock band in the basement (and this was WAY before the game), and spending time as a family on a Saturday night dancing and listening to Beatles records on the record player. 

The point here is that our inner child has all kinds of experiences that come up in some form or fashion as adults.  It could be seeing the same patterns in arguments you have with your spouse and feeling guilty that you argued about it in the first place. Or those evenings where you sit down and laugh your ass off at one of your favorite movies. Whatever it happens to be, accept it for what it is, good or bad. These are the stories that created our inner child and shaped us into the humans we are. I can tell you, my inner child loved my pet cat Tabby, and I definitely love my boys Harry and Lotus.