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How to Avoid Adulthood

Have you turned into an adult?

If you look back at your week, your month, heck, even your year (and not just 2016, my friend, since that just started), do you see a flurry of fun or a flurry of busy work? Can you pinpoint memories on the mountain and laughing with your buds, or is everything just one massive blur of fluorescent lights and paperwork and you, having no single point to pin anything remarkable on?

Did you identify with the latter part of the questions?

I'm sorry. You're an adult.

Most of us promised our younger selves that we wouldn't grow up. Yet, somehow, that adult life snuck in and little by little changed our priorities.

There are noble reasons for this, of course: providing for your family is one of them. But when you keep pushing for perfection with the idea of it being to "provide for your family" you might take a step back.

Your family wants to have fun with you.

No family? Well, your friends want to have fun with you.

No friends?

Get up to the hill and ride the chairlift.

The point I'm making is that the adult life crept into my life, and I didn't realize it until I took two hours away from my computer to go ride a chair at Whitewater.

It's been a couple of weeks (other than the Winter Carnival) that I took time to ski, something I used to live for. Skiing even plays a part in my professional life.

But I hadn't done it for myself.

Riding that chair up, feeling the cold air, staring at the treetops moving under the tips of my skis, I realized I needed that refresher. It wasn't just good for enhancing creativity at work (P.S. studies have shown outdoor time makes you a better worker), but, more importantly, it was good for the kid version of me.

I hadn't connected with her in a few weeks, but she was still there. I just needed to give her a chance to play.

You need that, too. Your family needs that. Your friends need that.

Start making memories that can be pinpointed when you look back on your year. Get up to the mountain and play.

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