When we were kids, things were very different.  For sure.
The times I am most thinking about tonight, is young childhood…. when you would go out with a friend or two, and you would come up with a game to play.

Just suiting up for some skinned knees, and all.  But the game creation ….. was very creative in it’s own right.  It was usually some sort of hybrid construction, consisting of Tag, Hide-N-Seek, Leap Frog, Twenty Questions….. whatever the heck we could throw together.

As if that wasn’t enough.  We would make up our own rules as we went.  Yes.  We would “roughly” assign some sort of general workings prior to the onset of the game.  Yet, as it evolved, so did the rules.

My good friend Plinky Watherton was great for this.  (And no.  I have no idea why he was called Plinky.)

But back to the game afoot.  Plinky was… for lack of a better term…..  a Game-Changer.

“Okay, you can only touch the tree for five seconds, and then after that, you have to spin in circles until you fall down….OR… you can crawl backwards over to the back steps…..  Got IT?”

Got it.

And away we would go.  Yet….. if things were going great in the game… we NEVER changed the rules.  We only switched things up when the “flow of the game” or “the course of events” wasn’t quite going right.  Pretty smart kids.

We could learn from the past it seems.  If we are smart adults, we learn to implement this behavior when we grow up.

You know.  If the way we are banging our heads up against the wall isn’t quite working out how we planned, perhaps we should try something else.  Perhaps.

When the same behavior produces the same results, over and over and over again….. and the results do no have a favorable outcome…  we should change the behavior.

Another one of life’s little gems.  And once again…. it seems ….  easier said than done.

At any rate, thanks for reading tonight.  I’m done touching the tree….. so now I have to go start spinning around in circles until I fall down.  Yeah Baby.