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’.
100 Days of Wonder – #49
We watched Deadpool and Wolverine last night. It is gloriously ridiculous and I love the fact that it just doesn’t take itself in any way seriously. I have struggled a little over the last week or so in particular to remember the silliness of life and I have taken things a bit too seriously. I was scrolling through Disney pictures to find something that encapsulate fun and silliness and not taking things too seriously and there are of course all of the shots with characters and things that show some of that. Mostly though it is the magic shots that capture it best. This one makes me laugh because Kath seems to have decided that Tinkerbell is the cutest thing on the planet and I am more in WTF nervous laugh territory. Of course when the photo was taken neither of us knew what the magic shot was. You can find out what shots are available where but somehow it adds to the magic when you don’t know and just roll with it. But taking yourself seriously definitely doesn’t work in this context. This is a timely reminder for me to be more magic shot and less instagram pout as the mad world of work, academia and life carries on around me.
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