Inspiration: Creative Play

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So I was on phone yesterday and your imaginary friend was crying to me telling me you havent talked to them in years. Years? What do you have to say for yourself?

Odd right? Not something people would normally say. But if you said that to a five year old, they might actually feel bad about it. When I was a kid, I used to stuff my imaginary friends under my desk and tell them to be quiet. As if I was going to get in trouble for having dragons under my desk in the first place. That level of imagination is something that only comes back to us when we are faced with a toddler.

We lose our imagination in middle school. The reason I know this is because when I was thirteen my twin cousins were three and they wanted to do nothing but scribble on copy paper with crayons and consistently be entertained. A ten year age gap is nothing to sneeze at, but the fact that at the tender age of thirteen I haf forgotten how to play, well thats just sad.

We get caught up in our heads instead of our imagination. Say a kid wants you to play pirate and your still dressed for work. Is that going to stop you from putting your tie as an eye patch or use your jewlery as burried treasure? Probably. Why? Because have lost our sense of play.

Playing make believe is probably the hardest thing to do as an adult. Being practical is all the rage. You get to keep your job, house, food, money. But you loose something inside yourself. Creative freedom.

Creative play is essential for daily life. The days we used to sit with our favorite toy and get lost for hours. Something that defined my childhood was Playdough. I often found myself wandering the toy aisles in wonder at the latest playdough gadget and twenty years later I still found myself slightly giddy when the newest playdough pizza maker was in the return bin at work. We all have our secret childhood joy. A food a movie a book or a game it doesnt matter. Tapping into that creative mindset and being able to access a different part of our brain can radically change the way we live our life and interact with the people around us. So the next time you want to tap into that creative play, call up that old imaginary best friend and have a conversation. You probably have alot to catch up on.

Alright so because today is Wednesday, I will be using this jumble of mush to create an actual, coherent article with pictures and the whole nine yards just to show you the magic that can come out of word vomiting. This is the first of its kind with one coming at ya weekly! See ya on the other side!