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Today's
Meditation:
I've been to a lot of social events in my life-- picnics
and cookouts and other such things. One thing that I
always find when I'm at those events is that I'm always
drawn to the children for one simple reason-- they're
usually playing and having fun, while the adults tend to
sit around and talk about the same things that they talk
about at every such occasion. In short, the kids are
much, much more fun, mostly because they still like to
play.
I do enjoy sitting down and talking to people and sharing
ideas with them, and I do recognize that there is a great
deal of value in doing so. But very often, I need a
break from the type of thinking that I need to focus
strongly on, and I need to just share other people's
company through having fun. And since I tend to look
at kids as other people who just happen to be younger than
I, their company to me is just as valuable and enjoyable
as that of adults.
Geoffrey doesn't give us this advice on a whim-- this
advice has been around for as long as people have.
He recognizes the importance of play in our lives, the
importance of rejuvenating ourselves constantly through
play and sharing play. He recognizes that most of us
spend most of our time around adults, doing adult things,
and that we've completely left behind those days when we
were in tune with the world and what it has to offer, when
we used this wonderful energy that we've been given for
something very, very important: fun and play.
Young dogs and kids make play an art, and they do it with
many of the traits that definitely could enrich our
lives: enthusiasm, energy, excitement, and a
predisposition for exploration. If we could bring
those four traits to all that we do in life, just how
would we do all that we do? We certainly have good
role models all around us, if we but take the chance to
learn from them.
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