100 Days of Wonder – #52
Here’s the Bear of Little Brain. This was taken at Epcot in January 2023 as he was doing his morning exercises. We stood and watched him for ages and got the giggles watching him trying to reach his toes. My anxiety has been sky high today and I have felt very ‘little brained’. I probably could have done with channeling Winnie a little more. Or just the feeling of standing and watching him. In fact I don’t think any of us really take enough time to just stand and stare or watch or just be. It’s all about productivity and that just ends up being counter productive because my work world should be about creativity and thinking and empowerment and inspiring others and none of that works well if my tank is empty. Winnie started his day with some exercise and some waving at crowds and some being silly and just the memory of that starts resetting my system and bringing my heart rate and anxiety levels down. I finished my day today with a Boxercise class at the gym. It felt good – sometimes you just need to punch the crap out of something to release the excess adrenaline – and there were some giggles too over my lack of co-ordination. The fact that I nearly passed out at the end and had to sit on a chair off to one said that felt rather like the naughty chair, is also a reminder to look after myself better during the day. Maybe pause, have lunch, drink water, drink less coffee… I can’t imagine Winnie not having a little smackerel of something at regular intervals!
100 Days of Wonder – #51
I have written a bit about fun and being fun and not taking things too seriously and how Disney is a reminder of those things. However, as this photo shows, some things are very serious! Neither of us accept losing on the Buzz Lightyear ride. It is all smiles and giggles and niceties until we get on that ride – and then it is war. The competition is intense – I mean just look at the concentration… I am only half joking, we do get competitive, I mostly lose and when the game or sometimes run of games is over, we move on – but in the moment – competitive doesn’t quite capture it. And it bemuses me because I am not generally competitive other than with myself and I don’t get like that on other rides that have game elements. Or certainly not to the same extent. In fact until I went on this ride the first time just because it had a short queue and was something to do, I wasn’t fussed about it, thought I’d be pretty indifferent. Nope, this ride unleashes my inner competitor, one I didn’t know I had. It’s not that I sulk or am upset when I lose – nope, I’ll just make us go round and round again until I win and if the queues are too long for that – we’ll be coming back later or the next day. Maybe it’s just as well that I get my fix of this at regular intervals and leave the competition out on a ride with fake laser shooters and made up aliens. I am not sure it would be healthy in real life.
100 Days of Wonder – #50
So we got half way! I really wasn’t sure I would stick at this but I have been enjoying looking through photos and remembering. Some posts have been done in batches and scheduled, others have been done on the day. Some posts are more meaningful, or more on topic, or more relevant than others. Some are serious, most aren’t. So what am I taking away from the first half of this exercise? Well, I think the thing that strikes me when I immerse myself in the Disney photos and let my brain do it’s thing is that Disney has highlighted the importance of story telling in learning, that DisneyWorld and the other parks have taught me the immeasurable value of not taking anything, least of all myself, too seriously and that RunDisney made me realise that ‘it’s kind of fun to do the impossible’.
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