Spontaneity
After the longest time, and perhaps for the first time ever for some of us, we watched two movies in a row in the theaters last night. Not a super-exciting thing to do in itself. But what really pumpes the adrenalin was the sheer spontaneity of what we did. Doing things on impulse, without giving yourself the time to think and weigh the pros and cons, without any form of deliberation- that's something most of tend to throw away with our youth. Yes, spontaneity is something most of us admire secretly, but disdain in public. We put it down to the silliness of youth, the stupidity of unthinking people, the symptoms of a complexed self-centered mind.
But its not all of that, is it? Its just being fun, being free, being devoid of the worry of consequence. Its a feeling we all need to experience from time to time, to reinforce the joy of living, to convince ourselves that we still have the capacity to retain parts of our childhood personalities.
In our increasingly planned, yet ironically chaotic lives, it is a struggle to be truly spontaneous about anything. Yet we must try, by giving in to those tiny harmless impulses, by letting ourselves go, by setting ourselves free, for those short moments of time.
I experienced all of this last night thanks to the friends I was, the few on this planet with whom I can be so free, so myself, so unpretentious and uncomplicated. Vive la friendship!