There are disadvantages to being a kid. There is homework, household chores, siblings with no sense of territorial imperitive. On the whole, though, kids are pretty lucky. They can find a fossil-shaped rock and feel like Indiana Jones. They can find an anthill and feel like God.
Kids never feel guilty for eating too much or exercising too little.
They can run buck naked through the sprinkler without giving a milisecond's thought to what the neighbor's might think of their chubby thighs. Kid believe that death means falling down, getting back up, and resuming play. To kids, life is forever. In a sense, they're right. When you live and play and cry and love entirely for the moment, as kids do, there's no such thing as time.