Do you get it?
I went for my usual run this past Saturday at Wrightsville Beach. There were hundreds of people on the beach doing all kinds of cool stuff. It was low tide, so there was plenty of beach to play on. Lots of people throwing frisbees and footballs. A few people playing lacrosse. Bocci ball, hackey-sack, soccer. And of course, people surfing, skim boarding, kayaking, boogie-boarding and body surfing. There were also plenty of folks running on the beach like I was and even more just walking. In my opinion, these people get it. I thought about our tag-line at QLI, "What is your quality of life?" Here were people who, at least at that moment in time, were enjoying life. For a person to have a wonderful life doesn't mean they have to look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie. These people on the beach that day came in all different shapes and sizes. But they all had one thing in common, they were having fun and being active.
And as I ran further I came across a group of 20 or so people, ages 20 something to probably 60. It looked like a group of brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. They had made a 30 foot slippy-slide on the beach out of plastic covered with liquid dish soap and sea water. They were all taking turns running and sliding on it while the matriarch of this clan knelt down at the end of the slide and snapped shots of them in action. Now these are people who REALLY GET IT. To take the time to trench out over 30 feet of beach and lay in plastic and then continually bring over buckets of water from the ocean shows a real commitment to fun. My guess is these people are a real hoot to hang out with. They get it.
That night I took my 10 year old daughter, Gabi, to the USS Battleship North Carolina to watch an old Jimmy Stewart movie, "Shop around the Corner". They show old movies on the deck of the battleship on a huge inflatable movie screen. The smell of popcorn and citronella wafted through the air as Gabi and I sat there under the stars. I wondered how it is that a 10 year old could be enjoying an almost 60 year old movie while occasionally swatting away mosquitoes, but then someone on the screen would say something funny, or at least it was funny to us old folks, and I would hear her laugh. She gets it.
And as I ran further I came across a group of 20 or so people, ages 20 something to probably 60. It looked like a group of brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. They had made a 30 foot slippy-slide on the beach out of plastic covered with liquid dish soap and sea water. They were all taking turns running and sliding on it while the matriarch of this clan knelt down at the end of the slide and snapped shots of them in action. Now these are people who REALLY GET IT. To take the time to trench out over 30 feet of beach and lay in plastic and then continually bring over buckets of water from the ocean shows a real commitment to fun. My guess is these people are a real hoot to hang out with. They get it.
That night I took my 10 year old daughter, Gabi, to the USS Battleship North Carolina to watch an old Jimmy Stewart movie, "Shop around the Corner". They show old movies on the deck of the battleship on a huge inflatable movie screen. The smell of popcorn and citronella wafted through the air as Gabi and I sat there under the stars. I wondered how it is that a 10 year old could be enjoying an almost 60 year old movie while occasionally swatting away mosquitoes, but then someone on the screen would say something funny, or at least it was funny to us old folks, and I would hear her laugh. She gets it.
posted by Qualify of Life Institute at
1:15 PM
1 Comments:
so totally true . . . and they did sound like a hoot :)
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