Play lego and grow up
Red lego blocks, blue, white, yellow, white, black. Two locked together make a mammy horse, baby pig, space rocket, digger, robot, plane, tractor, car, house, garage, dinner, bed. Who cares, they can be anything, do anything, be anything when you’re two years old flying about, busy building, breaking, throwing, trying, playing, failing, experimenting, falling down and getting up. The effort of newness and pushing boundaries and ideas all happen in a 24 hour minute of play. It’s constant work all day and then to bed exhausted; the imagination worn out after a delirium of never ending excitement and possibility. So why not us, why can’t we? Because we’re conditioned out of play. Formal education kills it slowly, softly, teaches us by rote, A – B – C, 1 – 2 – 3. Our view is shrunk into narrow parameters. We are inculcated into systems of work and rules of behaviour that exclude the wonderful colour and breath of our life – what is possible and what is not.
‘You can’t fail’
‘Get qualified’
‘Don’t rock the boat’
‘You can’t be different’
‘There is only one way of doing it’
‘It won’t work so don’t bother trying’
‘Treat yourself as a brand’
‘You’re not talented’
‘You’re not creative’
‘You can’t use your hands’
‘You’re good for nothing’
‘Buy a house’
‘Get a pension’
‘Settle down’
‘Don’t be stupid’
‘The majority must be right’
‘You’ll grow out of it’
‘Stop being contrary’
‘Sshhh…….’
You can’t say that, do that, be that. Balls. Balls. BALLS. Do what you wish. Play. They’re you’re blocks so you’re always right. If you want them to be a blue horse that can fly, then they’re a blue horse that can fly. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. They’re wrong. You’re an imaginative, unique, special, individual who has innate talent and the privilege of living. So live it as you wish it. Everything is possible. Including change.
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