Run! Run! Run! As fast as you can!

Hey y'all.

Man, it's been a while since i've been able to sit down, chill out and actually type about something enjoyable (yes, that was a shot at you, Madame Bovary (go ahead, keep looking persnickety, see where it gets you).). Uh huh, i just went with the end parentheses-period-end parentheses-period combo. It's been a while since i've done this. go crazy, folks! go crazy!

Life, life, life...it's all about perspective...

I've been working a lot (and by working i mean at work and by a lot i mean standing at a desk and checking my phone every 10 minutes with each glance giving me a painful reminder of my soul being sucked away...speaking of which, have you met my new manager?)

Follow all that, Annie Connolly?

but i digress

somewhere between lot and dementors i meant to note that i worked this past weekend. I enjoy the shift in demeanor on the weekend. Weekends are typically more relaxed. I get to have a little more fun, interact and have dialogs with the guests, let life happen, stuff like that. Why is this significant? Usually over the weekend we'll have some families stay for a night or two. Typically families come with children (it's kinda one of those 'you must be this tall to ride' things...only in this case it'd be one of those 'you must have at least one child to be a family' type thing). With children, comes excitement, wonder (and wander) and a bit of a mischievousness. They're kids...which leads me to the main point of this entry:

Kids like to run...a lot. Most of the kids between ages of 3-12 skip, prance, saunter, jog, sneak and pitter-patter their way around the lobby. Rarely do they walk. They really attack their destination (wherever it may be).

i thought to myself, "does this happen everywhere?" and the more i thought about it, the more i observed, the more i saw that yes, they run everywhere.

I've always thought we can learn a lot from kids. Of course, i also think that we can learn a lot from everyone. But kids have such an exuberance to their makeup. They're energetic, considerate, observant and inquisitive. They're just fun to be around.

And they run

they run

and run.

Why don't adults run everywhere? And by run, i don't mean that 'humph-humph-get-out-of-my-way walk. I'm talking a nice 3/4 speed stride down to the water cooler to get a drink. I'm talking 'hey-let's-race-to-the-library' Erin Garrett type enthusiasm.

Wouldn't that be outstanding?

But at some point throughout our lives we lose that zeal, that passion, that 'joie de vivre' and we blame a myriad of external stimuli instead of looking at the one element we actually have control over: our selves.

(this one's for you, Ty) i believe Katt Williams agrees with me: warning, includes strong language - viewer discretion is advised.

So go for a run. jog around for a little bit. play some tennis (Friday @ 3 - Bourgeois). kick a ball around with some friends. Be active. do something! Studies show social connections and physical activity improve mental health and well-being (of course, so does sex...but i would only recommend that to married couples open to conception).


in closing:

I've heard that we live in a dog-eat-dog world. Kids live in a share-puppies-and-play-with-each-other world.

that was fun.

keep it real,
- Daytona