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Our son loves playing on the carpet. Its softness allows him to be himself and play without a lot of physical risk. Whether it is a "perfectly" executed somersault or walking around on all fours, he loves it because it is something he has grown up with. It is familiar. It is friendly and it is always there.
On our trip to India this month, there were multiple instances where, quite unlike his home in the USA, there weren't any carpets. There were hard tiles and somersaults on tiles hurt. Jumping off stairs onto hard floors is not as soft as well. Instead of discouraged by the hard "enemy" he faced, he realized that sliding on a hard surface is so much more fun than on the carpet. There came the "lemonade" and our pride coupled with another headache. He would try and slide everywhere!
Adversity gave rise to experimentation which gave way to new found ways of having fun (or reaching his goal).
How many times in our lives do we give up simply because what we are familiar with and know is taken away from us? We stop having fun with what we do because we do not know how to deal with "hard tiled floors" in our lives and miss our "carpet".
Apparently all we require is to keep our goal in mind and deal with adversity in the best possible way we can. If we cannot somersault we should jump. If we cannot jump, we must slide!
Well done son! Now STOP...there are people watching and feeling bad for not doing this themselves ;)
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