Lighten up! Enjoy your life and don’t take it too seriously. It’s so easy to get bogged down in the day to day practicalities of life and forget the pure joy of life. Peter Pan helps adults to see that life should be an adventure and not a chore. He reminds us of just how much we have lost by growing up. Children live such rich lives because everything is still open to them – everything is possible in the child’s world, nothing is closed down. Adults lead such boring, predictable lives. Peter Pan reminds us that life can be magical and exciting if only we could let go of all our striving to achieve worldly success and social status. We can never be more than what we already are and all our attempts to better ourselves do not lead to happiness. Peter Pan instinctively knows this, which is why he hates adults and refuses to grow up. He knows the real joy of life lies in the freedom of the imagination.