The session I'm writing today is very close to the session I wrote about love; try to figure out where love is hidden, I hope you will find it helpful to your writing.

Let me take you back in time, to our childhood, to this significant period in our life, why so significant? Well, we had it all there, we all born with great ability to explore, learn and to love. Take a look at kids round you; do you see how much energy they have? Compare it with older people energy, can you see the difference? It seems that we are loosing some of this powerful energy along the way.

This observation is very simple, think about it, what kids are doing? Kids are playing!! And how do they play? They use their imagination! Do you see how simple things are? Kids are playing, using their imagination and have high level of energy and creative power. But what happened after age of six? We force kids to stop to play, send them to school and they have to face older people agenda and learn from that mass production education system what is reality and what is life, this system was created during the industrial revolution and haven't change much since then.

I don't know if you remember your first day at school, I remember it very well, I didn't like the idea that I can't play anymore when ever I like, I couldn't explain to myself that time why I don't like this idea but it all looks to me very wrong, only years after I have learned how big is the mistake to stop kids from playing. (If you wish to learn more about this educational approach you may read this brilliant book: Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood by Alexander S. Neill).

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You may ask why playing is so important for us? The fact is that playing is the most effective and joyful why of learning. By playing we are learning wide verity of skills and acquire different kind of knowledge. We develop our emotional intelligent and our creativity, we simulate different situation in the "real world" and practicing in "safe mode" how to handle complicated situations. Playing is by far more advance then any other life skill learning methods.

Years after we have been forced to stop our natural learning process we are starving to bring ourselves the energy and joy we already had, available in our hand. At least we are lucky because we don't have to start all from scratch, we just have to go back in time and remind ourselves to use it again, to wakeup what is waiting for us so many years to be used.  And maybe it would be a good idea to find few good friends and start to play again like in the good old days ;-), why not give it a try….

So, let's try to remind ourselves how it was long time ago when we were kids. I would like to take you back to my childhood; I was born in a very small neighbourhood outside of a very small town to a simple middle class family. My entire world was my few friends and family. I didn't know anything about big cities, countries overseas, the stock market in New York, fancy restaurants in Paris, Yachts or safari in Africa. My world was very small but very exciting, I can easily remember that every day was long and exciting, every moment was full of revelations and everything we did as kids was amazing adventure.

One of my memories reflects that feeling of excitement quite well. We had an old car wreck in our kindergarten, as kids with open minded and great creative power we have decided we can FLY with this car. First we have decided to clean the car and every day we went very excited to the kindergarten and spent hours cleaning this old car and talking with each other about the day this wreck will be ready to fly, we imagined how we will fly it and where we will go, what places we are going to see and all was clear and colourful in our imagination and with excitement only kids and great artist can describe. Then when the day has arrived and the car was clean and well, almost shiny….. but ready to fly, we agreed that tomorrow each one of the kids will bring all kinds of candies and put them in the fuel tank, this will make sure the engine although wasn't exist… will work and take us to the sky. The next day I asked my mom to give me the best candies we can find at home, I told here we are having a big party in the kindergarten, (without getting too much into details with here, somehow I figured out she might spoil our plans with some logical older people, non creative thinking). To make long short each one of us broth with him a beg with colourful candies, cookies, chocolate, you name it, the best of the best and we put all of them in the fuel tank of that old car. And Guys, I had the great pleasure to fly the machine up to the sky. All of us, maybe seven kids got into the car and started the engine with the imaginary key, the engine sound was perfect, the car loved our candies and we took off high above our kindergarten, we saw the small houses of our neighbourhood and all the forests and fields and the road to town, and we all where so excited by the great adventure we had, adventure we kept talking about for mothers after. Even we were kids, we knew this car never left the ground, but who cares, the power of imagination took us anywhere we want and the excitement and the adventurer spirit that we experience was the one we count.

Now, go back to your childhood and bring us something from there, a story about pure imaginary game that you have created, tell us about it and try to recall the feelings and spirit you had when you plaid this game, you would be surprise how exciting this kind of experience might be for you and how useful it can be for now. We love to play imaginary games and all we do is a game of our imagination, a game we can use for our benefit in any aspect of life especially for writing.

I want to wish you a great journey in time!!

Gilor