Adventure Shoes and Other Wonders of the Universe
When deadlines and commitments are driving you, embrace the approach of a child.
If you are going on an adventure, you need the right shoes. My grandkids and I go on adventures, not simple walks, oh no, not for us. They are wild adventures.
When her older brother started school again this year, my granddaughter, C, proclaimed that she and grandpa would go on adventures together, just the two of us.
And so we have.
This is Miss C; those curls are all-natural, by the way. She gets them from her grandmother.
She decided she wanted to push the stroller, and shortly after, we did the puddle thing at her request.
Not jumping and splashing, instead, stepping in, watching the ripples, and then making footprints on the path.
I would have simply walked around them on my own; through my granddaughter's eyes, they became a source of wonder.
What do we miss when we use only the lens of busy adults? When deadlines and commitments are driving us?
One of the great things about grandchildren is that the "have to's" disappear in many ways. Time is focused more on experiencing and simply being.
There's a lesson in that for all of us, regardless of what point in life we are at now.
Want to join Me and C on an adventure?
Oh, I am a big baby. We must keep that forgotten inner child alive, the way to look at everything is magical and inspiring. Butterflies, trees, puddles, rain, flowers, music at the store...then I dance in the big hallways or to the elevator music too. I dance in my car, dress up for Halloween and Comicon.
Puddles are an opportunity to change the narrative. Once you jump in the outcome is never the same.