Permission to be silly
April 1, 2009 – 8:18 am
Skipping along
Happy April Fools Day,
Just think, all around the world people are giving themselves permission to be silly, to act without judgment and to have fun. For many adults, this is a scary proposition. Some of who, in fact, may be thinking, “Oh great, what stupid pranks are going to be played on me today?” I say, carpe diem! After all, how often do we serious and somber humans actually give each other permission just to be silly?
As children it comes naturally. Little people know that silliness and harmless fun is as vital to our well being as air and food. My mother used to call it “food for the soul.”
The key is to keep it harmless. Somehow as we grow up life shifts us from being silly to making others feel silly and then things get distorted. By the time we are adults we start to loath silliness because it can backfire on our precious and delicate egos.
This bronze sculpture can be found in the Summerville Park
I hope today you will give yourself permission to exhale, lovingly poke fun at yourself and enjoy a brief respite from your everyday gravity. Feel the lightness of being that is joy. Who knows, by the time you tuck yourself in tonight you may just be ready to float into pleasant dreams.
Happy Day,
3 Responses to “Permission to be silly”
Laughter is often called “internal jogging”.. The body has to change its normal way of functioning to accommodate the physical act of laughing… the brain is stimulated by having to think “outside the box” and react to this unusual state of being… How great it feels to let go of the tension and stress of the everyday world…to laugh at ourself and this strange but beautiful world in which we live..
Our world is how WE see it …It’s great to have a day set aside so we can PUT ON A HAPPY FACE and enjoy life..even if it is just for a day. .. who knows, maybe we could make it last a week , a month…Check out Norman Cousins… he believes in laughter.
By Marie Gandy on Apr 1, 2009
I like!
By caroline Farrar on Apr 1, 2009
LOVE sculpture, this is a great one. There is a great one of crack-the-whip up in Chicago at Navy Pier. Looks like same artist. Will look for this one.
By Janine Marthai on Apr 2, 2009