Being spontaneous!

This post doesn't have alot to do with learning to love yourself, it does however highlight how small experiences can bring happiness into your life.  As I am sure you all have seen painting is one of my passions I just absolutely love art and sometimes in the midst of engaging in life it is so easy to forget those things that bring joy and passion to your soul.  Our family recently moved to a small acreage and have decided we wanted to create a garden. Well as I have mentioned I have an injury that makes it impossible for me to work so stooping bending squatting are all out of the picture so I thought that this meant a garden would be impossible.  Well inspiration hit me a week or so ago that these wooden crates that we had on our property would make perfect containers for a small garden (we have four of them they are prob 3 feet long and just plain old boring wood).  I always picture a garden being something colorful and full of life.  So I decided that these plain old boxes needed painting and sprucing up. So today as a family my mother, sister, my nephew,  2 nieces and myself went to work on one of the boxes.  We created a wonderfully eclectic collection of art on this boring old box. I will have to take a picture and share our creation with you all.  It was so fun to do something creative and to not care or judge what was being done.  I think that activities like this are a great modeling for the younger ones of how not everything in our life has to be perfect or have a purpose such as working or helping someone else.  Of course the outcome will eventually be a garden with veggies in it but they will most likely be eating the veggies with us this summer.  Anyway it spoke to me how freeing it felt to just engage in something that was fun, and to get paint all over and not care or judge the activity.  We have three more crates to paint so we get to have this experience three more times (I hope we don't run out of paint, I suspect we will I think we are almost out now, LOL).  Have you done anything spontaneous and freeing lately, that just allowed you to be, and to experience life for what it is?

Find your freeing activity, its worth it!