212. Play - It's the Whole THING {with Olivera}

I decided to share the context for play. That Olivera and I were discussing. I went for a hike in Pittstown. State forest and upstate New York. With my friend, Sam, who you have heard from on this show. Pretty recently. Maybe like a hundred nineties somewhere in there. And. this little story about decision-making led Olvera and me to. A discussion about. Play. Thank you for being here thank you so much for playing with us Here it is

Yeah. Decisions, man. Wow. That's a tough one.

I know like,

Until you get it.

Sam and I drove separate and we didn't know where to go really in this state forest. So we were stopped somewhere and he's just like, all right, it's up to you. Keep going or stop here. And I'm like, Sam, I'm not good at decisions.

Yes, you are. You're actually the best.

I'm better now but

You are so good at decision making. All you have to do is be quiet for a second.

I know. And actually what happened was, he's like, do you want me to make this decision? Because, because sometimes I just want somebody else to

I know. I know.

he's like, cause if you do, I, I say right here, I'm like, okay. But then somebody came up to him and was like, this isn't really a hiking spot and it's hunting season.

Oh, okay.

So, anyways, we ended up finding service and I was able to find the actual trailhead that we were looking for. So we did that.

was fun.

It was really.

I like that you play like that. You

Oh my god. Oh, that's it.

that's the whole thing.

That is it.

That is the whole thing.

Let's talk about play.

Oh yeah. That's different than before

I want you to know, anybody listening, it doesn't matter what you are doing, you can still be playing.

and not be serious about this serious thing.

Yeah.

It's actually easier. Way easier.

Oh my god, it's so much easier. It's like, back up. Notice that this world is going to be what it is, it's going to do the things that it's going to do. We're not in control of everything going on in the world. And there's really, honestly, I don't feel like there's all that much we can do to affect it, especially if we're trying to manipulate the energies and change it so that we feel better.

Yeah.

Instead, if we can simply observe that the world is being the world, and my job, if I want to call it that, is to play, my role is to get with myself, make decisions from home,

Be curious.

be curious, play,

Have fun. Keep it light.

let other people have their own experience, and don't. And I don't have to get sucked into that experience or that drama.

Bravo.

Yeah,

That's a way different life experience than regular thinking.

Think, yeah, seriously, think about managing a big store where people obviously have issues and some people come in and they're angry and upset. And they tell me how absolutely incompetent. I am, personally, potentially, all of the associates are, everyone who's ever worked for, it's like, how's life treating you, friend? Like, am I going to get frazzled by that? Rocked by that? Rarely, if ever, because it's, it's not worth it to me

That's not.

to take stuff like that person to take anything personally,

Mm hmm.

And we could go off on taking things personally. Do you want to do that? You want to go off on that Olivera?

god. I was gonna say that's another gem. Once you get, you're like... Set not to take anything personally.

Guess what's coming at you tomorrow. Yup. You guessed it don't take anything personally. We will see you then until next time we are sending all the love and then some more we'll talk tomorrow