🛝 It’s okay to go up the slide the wrong way
Book of TREE 1.77
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.
You could totally climb a slide the wrong way today.
From a rather enjoyable tribute album:
Grow slowly
Jeff
Yes, 4. Ikr?
I just moved. I’m still settling in. My bedroom has 4 doorways entering it that present issues for clear walkways. Perplexed, I began moving furniture. I found the way everything fit but not how I had thought. I went up the slide backwards and found the flow.