62/100 || I received some beautiful flowers for my birthday, and I always have a tough time throwing flowers out – putting an ultimate end to their lovely life. This one was on it’s last leg, so decided to play the “he loves me, he loves me not” game with it that I learned as a child. With so many petals it actually turned into more of a meditative practice then anything else – really losing track of what I was saying. It became more about the repetition, allowing me to zone out and daydream. Ultimately that was quite nice, cause – damn! – what a sexist game! Just pining away, waiting, asking a flower for answers?! Curious if little boys are taught to play “she loves me, she loves me not” with a flower? If I were to ever teach this to a young child the question would most definitely be changed! Otherwise, just allowing myself to be in the moment, examining the intricacies of the flower, was a moment of stillness. Anna Quindlen wrote a wonderful article, “Doing Nothing is Something,” about the importance of children having experiences being bored. That it is in our boredom that we learn how to innovate and use our imagination to not be bored. If children are constantly stimulated, they will never learn how to be still or comfortable in the unknowing. And so much of life is about those moment of unknowing – specifically how we learn to navigate through them. So, the most important thing I took from this moment of play (minus the stuff it brought up due to the sexist nature of the game) was the importance in giving yourself the time to just daydream and zone out. Magic can come out of those moments or they allow you the time and space to dream and imagine.
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