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Oh, that's beautiful, you're reconnecting the different “parts” of you!
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What does a 6 years old want? Just: to be happy! But not happy in the way of the adults, which is more like a mental state of happiness, a thought about happiness, that in many adults has replaced the real things, the happiness kind of a child.
Alan Watts used to say that “by overthinking, we have lost touch with reality”, and he said that before the internet, before the computers and before the social networks, so you can imagine how much further we all are now on that topic.
Being happy doesn't involve anything. It doesn't involve the future, it doesn't depend on the past, … being happy is just … right here! Being happy means being present to the world, paying attention to the world, and not focusing on the idea of the world. Someone who is watching the television all the time will get only that, “television” and so, he will miss “life” and reality!
Therefore being too much focused on adults problems has really the same consequence as watching TV full time: when you do that, you miss something. And then only your 6 years old “you” can remind you that what you do right now is not sane.
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But don't misunderstand me on this point, I'm not saying that watching TV or thinking about problems is bad, what I'm saying is, that it shall never be done too much, like anything else it's good only up to a certain point.
