Shall We Play?

Shall we play?

Danish author Iben Sandahl writes that play ‘is one of the ways children become who they are’.

It makes me wonder how play may be one of the ways adults remember who we are.

Perhaps when we adopt too many of the adulthood ‘shoulds’, feeling as though we always need to be serious, focused, controlled, optimised and productive, we lose a little of ourselves.

Perhaps it is time to expand, or re-write, the ‘shoulds’.

It’s the weekend, what better time to (re)discover our playful self.