With my little princess growing up fast, I find that it is me who is learning more from this relationship.. She is all of three and a half and brings me surprises (most of them pleasant :) ) every day. One of the basic things she has taught me is patience, loads of it. Consider typing this post with one hand, because she is tying my other hand with a thread, when usually I get terribly irritated if someone disturbs me while doing something.
This evening we'd been to the close by park, where she likes playing on the slide. Having taken the camera without the SD card, there was nothing for me to do, so I sat there watching her play. She played on the slides for about 5 minutes and I could see that she was getting bored. I was surprised to see her doing improvisation - first she slid down in the sitting position - a leg folded over the other. Slid down lying face down. Found a way to skip one step while climbing up. Climbed up from the front of the slide. - Innumerable ways of improvisation. This got me thinking, we claim to be bored with everything: work, relationship, day-to-day 'routine' - if only we could think and act a bit differently - improvise.
Yes, there is so much we could learn from kids - if only we could take some time off from our 'busy' lives and pay attention.
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