Playing

At work today (lifeguarding) I watched a day camp of young 5 year old kids playing with their adult counselors. It brought me back to my younger days when I used to play with my parents. My dad especially would play with my brother and I by scaring us (into laughter): the claw hand, the salami slam, and of course tickle fights. I used to be so genuinely scared but happy at the same time. My dad was not actually a scary person but he was definitely not being his 9-5 workday adult self. He was being a child self. Now watching these adult counselors playing similarly with these kids- acting crazy and like little kids themselves- I realized life can be so much more fun when you are a more "child-like" carefree person. I said childlike in quotes because we really aren't acting like children we are just being ourselves- a part of ourselves that we've forgotten about. When playing a character I have to be able to some of that playing self because no matter how serious the character is, they are still human and still at one point were children and allow their emotions out like children- happy and scared at the same time...

Also letting go and being my inner child is a lot easier and refreshing. Yesterday I ended up having a tickle fight with one of my friends and by the end of I was out of breathe, my heart was racing and I felt so happy to be alive. The laughter,  the screams, the running around the house was fantastic