http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-childhood/201306/the-secret-summer-kids
Sometimes we think too much.
Is thinking always bad?
Thoughtfulness is praised
but sometimes we need just to perceive;
To lose ourselves in this world
In the sun and in the rain
In the joy and in the pain.
We must engage
in the game of living,
though some
seem better than others,
like those children who stood on their heads,
or turned cartwheels.
I envied them,was awkward,clumsy,
Was already thinking too much
about the reasons for people’s behaviour
and looking for the patterns;
Was I a sinner?Where was Love?
Do we discover patterns or create them?
Some can live with chaos more easily.
Better not think about that.
Better to see the sun hitting the water
and the ripples where the geese swam;
Reflections,refractions,distractions.
We have to face life in the end
Play wholeheartedly
Take the knocks and come back.
Keep tumbling
And flying.
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