If you know me, you know I love children. They so often have the most pure, positive energy. Their happiness is contagious and they never fail to distract me from my own worries. Being around children as much as I am always reminds me that, as adults, we can learn as many lessons from them as they can learn from us.

1. Be accepting without question.

As a kid, they haven't been taught the "rights and wrongs" society deems necessary to know. They see everyone as equal and they have no reason to distrust or dislike anyone that comes their way. They see the good in people before anything else. We should be more like that, too. Instead of being so influenced by what society says, let's see people with the child in our hearts first.

2. Always be honest.

We all know kids are very unfiltered. I'm not exactly saying we should be as brutally honest as kids are because -- let's face it -- sometimes it's a bit too honest, but I am saying that we should learn to be a little more truthful. We tell too many fibs too often to either save ourselves or save someone else's feelings. However, honesty is a virtue we should never lose no matter how old we are.

3. Live without comparison.

Children don't worry about what their peers think of them. Kids do what they want because they want to. They don't worry that what they like might seem weird to someone else. They don't let other people's opinions of them change their lifestyle. They don't compare themselves to others either, so they just live freely and happily. They never stop loving themselves.

4. Never lose your imagination or curiosity.

For some reason, we lose so much of our imagination and curiosity as we grow up. Kids are always wondering and creating. They ask questions and, sometimes, they make up their own answers. They see the world with such life and vibrancy. We need to add more color to our lives and by accessing our childlike imagination and curiosity, we can do just that.

5. Stay happy for no reason.

As we grow up, we become so weighted by the stress and problems in our lives that we tend to spend our days worrying about the next instead of enjoying our moments. We always think we have to have a reason to be happy, but we don't. Children are happy simply because they are here and they like how that emotion feels. Like Deepak Chopra says:

"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble because that reason can be taken from you."

We're always teaching children. What to say, what to learn, who to be. But they have a huge lesson to teach us: how to enjoy our lives. If we kept just a little bit of our younger selves in us as we aged, we would see how much more there is in this world to love.