It looks like my sister's friends in DC are not really following their resolution about eating only soup in January... but then again, I can't blame them - I'm not a big fan of resolutions in general, especially the kind that restrict something you like :-)
My sister started to give things up for Lent in the past few years, but they've been things like, "give up feeling sorry for yourself" - much more to my taste! So this year, I've come up with a New Year's resolution that will be both hard to follow at times, and always make me feel better when I do it (unlike those delayed-gratification things like "don't eat cheese")... and so my resolution this year is to Play More - as in "be more playful," not "play video games" (although that would still be in the spirit of things).
This all started to come to fruition in my head over the past few months, during which I've been taking things WAAAYYY too seriously - at work, at home, with friends, family, etc. (hmmm - I think maybe I've been a pain in the ass in the process!).
Then something in my head insisted that I do a few key silly things that have started to make me less serious - like buy a "One Laptop Per Child" computer (and donate one to a kid in the developing world at the same time with their G1G1 program), and read "kids" books (the Golden Compass movie started that), and start a silly blog about soup... And so I'm going to just try to think of life as Play and see where that takes me...
Playing has it's pros and cons, of course, as anyone who was ever a kid remembers (so does the cute "baby laptop", btw - Linux is kindof fun but also kindof time-sucking!). Playing may "waste time" - but on the other hand, you discover real things when you play, like what it's like to be on Battlestar Gallactica (or could morph into animals), or what's actually interesting about a piece of music that you're noodling with (what a grown-up example). Playing shows you who the bullies are, who the fun kids are, what you might like doing more (be a mermaid) or less (play dodgeball).
Ok - enough philosophizing... talk amongst yourselves...
This weekend - more soup!
I have been eating for the last seven months.
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3 comments:
I am a little overly fond of parenthetical statements (she said in a snooty voice)
I love your resolution to play more! This is a test of my blog account.
Hey soup lady, we should join culinary forces one of these weekends and see what we can cook up. (Dare I say, cassoulet? Not a soup, and certainly not in line with any healthy resolutions, but still. Mmm.)
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