A View From the Sixth Grade

Wouldn't it be nice to live like a kid again?

Every Friday, if the kiddos have been good for the week, the teachers take the 6th grade students to the park across the street. As I was watching/observing them, I began thinking about how carefree these kids must be. Hardly a care in the world. For most of the students, picking out their outfit might just be the hardest part of the day. Must be nice.

But in watching this free-for-all, I thought to myself..."wouldn't it be cool if adults still acted like these kids?" I have seen many business employees taking a "break" by sitting in their cars, reading a magazine, smoking a cigarette on a bench, talking on a cell phone, or just sitting there and doing absolutely nothing.

Play along for a second.

Imagine it's break time at your place of employment. Your walking with your co-workers towards the door for a break. You open the door and BAM!...you take off in a dead sprint. You are chasing your co-workers around the grassy field. Doing circles around the tree. Picking up sticks and sword fighting. The men are trying to tackle each other. The women are having screaming contests. Someone is trying to take Ralph's hat. Sally is jumping over shrubs because she can. There is Running. Chasing. More running. More Chasing. People fall down and get dirty. Who cares! More running. More chasing. Bob is doing 360's off the picnic table. Barb is crossing the monkey bars. Mark is hanging upside down from the swing. Then, just like that, break is over. You walk casually back into the building. Back into the real world.

Ah, to be a 6th grader again...