Who would've thought I would have had some sort of epiphany watching the Packers. What started out as putting on the game for my houseguest and Dad and son turned out to be a life lesson...
Kids go to the park and they become best friends instantly with the little monster or pixie in front of them in line for the slide. I watch them form these immediate bonds and shake my head in wonder. We become blocked off as adults. We worry about judgement and shortcomings, status and position. We compare and contrast and in this horrible process we forget to forge a new relationship. If I like you, I like you. Period. I'm not wasting time holding back anymore.
With new friends come new interests. About certain things I was the fold my arms and turn up my head sort of gal. Not anymore. I see things with new eyes. I enjoy that someone is sharing time with me. I open up to the new. I am so sorry I didn't do it sooner. Oh, the amounts of calamari that would've been ingested...
So today I watched some football by a fire with a brand new friend and had a wonderfully peaceful Sunday afternoon. Kids in pjs, pooch at my side and friends and family grounding me after a week of busy. Sometimes the simplest of changes make the biggest impacts.
a good one! i'm sitting in my hotel room covered in goosebumps. it's so true. kids don't care about any of that other junk that we adults let stand in our way of new people, new experiences and new connections. i must have been channeling your vibe, because Monday after our show ended we trekked out to dinner with new friends and then i stayed up way past my bedtime to go play putt putt golf. totally ridiculous, but fun. we shut the place down at midnight! haha.
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