🙃 TREE 219: Up wrong

Throwback Thursday – TREE 5

One.

Two.

It’s okay to go up the slide the wrong way.

After all, a slide is just a metal hill. You’re pretty good at getting up hills.

How many of the rules that we follow are social conventions? Social conventions are often useful. They keep life flowing smoothly. They give us things to talk about. It’s handy to have ‘the way we do things’.

But sometimes social conventions are dumb. They get in the way of human flourishing. They are basically a parent shouting at their kid to not climb up the slidey part for no good reason at all.

It’s good to notice that and do things ‘wrong’ sometimes. That’s how progress happens.

Three.

I go back to the top. The way The Beatles combine heavy darkness and joyful light to make a fairground slide feel profound is genius.

You could totally climb a slide the wrong way today (figuratively or, possibly better, literally).

Grow slowly.
Jeff