Just Playing
Suzie Bichovsky-Thomas • November 10, 2013
If you have children, work with children, know children, or were once a child, then…you are familiar with the following phrase. “We were just playing.”
Punched someone in the face? “We were just playing.”
Threaten to stab your brother? “We were just playing.”
Ripped the head off of your friend’s doll, prompting an epic smack down between two moms? Oops! “We were just playing.”
I can’t help but wonder if I could apply this philosophy to my adult life.
Forget to pay the mortgage? “We were just playing.”
Don’t show up at work for a week or fail to get a project done? “We were just playing.”
Hurt someone close to you? “We were just playing.”
The problem with “just playing” is that both parties need to be in on the game and know what the rules are.
What’s your game? What are your rules? And, most important…have you clued people into them?
Have a great week and remember to play fair.
There’s something about being outside surrounded or embraced by nature.
What’s a nature element that really speaks to you?
It could be the moment you notice the dark green of a treetop touching the vibrant blue of the sky.
I’m awful at business growth, meaning- I don’t post when algorithms say I should. I don’t “buy” likes or followers or traffic to my site. I post all things related to burnout prevention on Fridays which used to be one of the worst days to do so.
I got a phone call on Wednesday night with a funeral date for a family member that passed in March.
During that conversation, we once again explored the path of origin. The surviving spouse got it from work (the area was an epicenter of contagion before we all knew what’s going on). The workplace was a school. It spread like wildfire (again, before anyone knew what it was).