Balance and Vitality

The juggling balls came out again for an encore. My kneejerk reaction was, cool! Let's do it! I told a slightly stunned Alexis that juggling was fun (fun! I said fun! So not a part of my regular vocabulary!!) and proceeded to quite happily not succeed at juggling.

Looking back on the first juggling session and the state of utter panic it produced, I think this is clear pro-AT evidence. One could argue that I'm simply getting more comfortable with the juggling exercise, but that doesn't factor in the sensation of fun that I've been feeling off and on recently.
 
I'm finding that the secret of fun -- and maybe this is obvious to everyone else -- is to be in the moment, whatever you are doing. And it's not easy to be in the moment if you're focused on doing it right, getting something out of it, trying to be better than everyone else etc... in other words, you hinder your enjoyment when you're end-gaining. Ironically, end-gaining won't even give you the best results so you may as well relax and enjoy whatever it is you are doing.

A few months ago, I probably would have finished this post with "Easier said than done." But in this session, fun was as difficult as throwing around some vinyl balls. It's nice to see how easy fun can be.