Learning to play

I want to be like my daughters when I grow up. To many that makes no sense because children are supposed to grow up and be like us.But most kids do a few things we grown ups have forgotten…Kids play hard.They fall down, dust themselves off and try again.They laugh. A lot.

They marvel at a rainbow or a cool bug. (My girls do both)

They dream big. All of the above are why I want to be like my children when I grow up. Especially the playing hard and dreaming big.

When’s the last time you heard a child say they were conserving their energy for later in the day? Or when have you heard a child dream about paying bills or spending an hour driving to work?

Of course kids don’t take into account all the hard stuff we grown ups have to do like pay the bills and deal with bodies that don’t get up and go like they used to.

But maybe we don’t dream big or play hard because we’re too bogged down in “reality.”

What if we let reality go for a few minutes each day~ the world won’t cease to function if we try this~ and just played? Just dreamed a big dream?

A likely outcome is that we’ll smile more. Maybe even laugh more.

Then maybe, just maybe, we’ll put our grown up thinking skills to work and start making some of those dreams come true.

Because we’re never too old to dream. Or play.

I hope you’ll do some of both this holiday season.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2009!