Anthropological research

After asking this question at Underskog, a Norwegian Internet society I got a lot of really good responses. My conclusion was that almost everyone has some really good childhood memories form climbing in trees. In fact there were many who had almost had a kind of relationship with one particular tree. The tree-crone is the perfect place to hide away, and to create your own personal atmosphere where the adults don’t enter.

But part of being a child is also to learn. And after falling down form a tree, it’s easy to get scared and not to climb up there again. As adults we are very orientated towards consequences in everything we do, and climbing means taking the risk of falling down and possibly injure your self.


Another aspect, pointed out from the answers, was the social aspect. As an adult there are certain expectations to how you should act, what you should do and don’t. It’s a whole system of behaviour rules, and if you do something different, then people might think less of you, or at least not support you!

Maybe we adults are not so good at seeing the positive consequences? I would actually claim that if you as an adult dear to break from the rules of the society, to climb and liberate your self from the ground where you have all your responsibilities it would give you a liberating feeling, something you can benefit from in many different areas in life.