Nerds can have a good time too, you know. They (we) are perfectly capable of having a party during what should be class, breaking out the junk food, turning up the Pat Benatar, and running through a set of sprinklers on the track like it was your driving test not for marks. Perfectly capable, just like today.It's weird to think that I've been in the same class as those kids for five years. Of course some of them didn't show up but for those that did, we managed to let our hair down for a grand total of 1 hour and 10 minutes in the midst of P.E. classes and video projects and we ran, and danced, and played in the sunshine. The 13 of us shared 3 frisbees, 3 bags of popcorn, some lemon cranberry muffins and a giant box of crayons. (There was more food than anything, but none of us thought to bring water so the sprinklers came in perfect time).
Why is this so strange to me? Why is it so unfamiliar to have a good time and just hang out and swing my arms and legs around to a song without thinking?
Yesterday, I went to go visit a friend of mine in the hospital. He's a nerd too, so we thought it'd be great to bring him a set of bongos and a guitar and have this positive energy jam sesh... and he kept telling us to "forget all the shit" and just not think about how the jam turned out. So we got a rhythm going, and I kept trying to jump in with a hum, nothing but a hum, and I found so hard. Which is stupid! And it took me long enough to just let sound out of me and make up words and I realised, I don't have enough improvised, spontaneous FUN in my life.
I still remember when I was 11 and my uncle asked me if I'd like to snow tubing and my instinct screamed no because it wasn't something we'd planned. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It was so much fun.
With everything that's going on, and there's ALWAYS something going on that makes you feel more grown up that you are/should be, we all need to do this. Promise me that you will go and step out into the sunlight and shake your hair around in the wind because it does the soul at least a little bit of good. :-)
mmmmmm sunshine
ReplyDeleteFrisbees really do make everything better. And you want spontaneity? Then why don't we hang out more? :P I'm enough spontaneous for a whole army of boring people. But then again - all of our hang sessions are usually planned out weeks in advance. :D Yes we are nerds. Yes we can have fun. It shouldn't be hard to do nothing, now should it?
ReplyDeleteLike Bryson said, these days things have to be planned, with everyone working it's hard to be spontaneous. Some days I'll have a sudden urge for the water park, but more than half the people cant make it.
ReplyDeleteIts seems being spontaneous now a days has to be planned out two weeks in advance so that everyone can get the day off.
I promise I'll try though <3