Charlie Hoehn points out in his fabulous book, Play it Away that if you dedicate 30 minutes per day to play, that only adds up to 2% of your week. When I decided to go on the waterslides, without ‘too busy’ to use as an excuse, I realized what stops me from playing is a bunch of fearful thoughts: that waterslide looks quite big and scary / you will look silly as one of the only adults there / you will freeze at the top of the hill while waiting to go down again / your swimsuit could come down / you could stand on something sharp while walking back up etc. We fear standing out or looking silly
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