August 4th, 2007
Legos
Yesterday I played with legos between two business meetings. I want everyone to soak that in for a moment. This is not normal behavior for a full grown adult. I do not have kids and I wouldn’t trust my little sister with my legos so yesterday, by myself, I constructed and then destroyed a series of legos that I built.
Why did I do this? Am I crazy, slightly mentally retarded, slow? No. (At least that I know of.) I was enjoying the feeling of being a kid again. Sometimes with the stress of the adult world a person must do something to bring them back to the better times.
In the book “Everything I Needed to Know I Learned In Kindergarden,” the author portrays a similar model by using crayons and coloring. On my first day of a philosophy class with the great teacher Mr. Charlie Kern, he could have posed a big question or made us dig head first into Socrates, but instead he read us this passage entitled “Crayons” and had us color a picture.
I stayed almost completely in the lines!
The point is that to keep stable in the hectic world that is adulthood sometime one must come back to what is pure to them. For many it is coloring. For some it may be swinging on a swing in the park. For me it is playing with legos. Just think about what you did as a child that brought you joy. You may be surprised to find out that it can bring a smile to your face even today.
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We never did take pictures of those awesome creations we have made. Although you destroyed almost all of them by the time I would have gotten the chance haha. What did you do with them? Are they still put together?