Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Learning from Children - remembering fun
Another thing we learned as children is that nothing is more important than fun - not eating or sleeping, not getting well or doing work. Nothing.
The reason it's so easy to forget - from the time we go to school we're taught, patiently and repeatedly, that there are always other things to do first, before we can have fun. Things like: cleaning out desks, filling out worksheets, doing homework. And as we get older, there are just more and more of these things that have to be done before we can have fun - get a job, find a spouse, build a house. And then eventually there are so many of these things that we simply forget why we were doing them in the first place.
Until we get old enough to retire, and finally there's so little else to do, that just maybe, if we're lucky enough, something'll finally remind us: Everything's done. Now. Now we can have it. Yes now we can have fun.
The reason it's so easy to forget - from the time we go to school we're taught, patiently and repeatedly, that there are always other things to do first, before we can have fun. Things like: cleaning out desks, filling out worksheets, doing homework. And as we get older, there are just more and more of these things that have to be done before we can have fun - get a job, find a spouse, build a house. And then eventually there are so many of these things that we simply forget why we were doing them in the first place.
Until we get old enough to retire, and finally there's so little else to do, that just maybe, if we're lucky enough, something'll finally remind us: Everything's done. Now. Now we can have it. Yes now we can have fun.
Labels: playfulness
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