Play

We live in a world where something is always expected of us, where we have to produce more, be more efficient and meet certain objectives. Even in our free time something is demanded of us.

Playing opens a space for us to recollect, to be present, to do without expecting anything in return, to do something without pretending, without wanting to get anywhere, just because we enjoy it. Playing is an experience that allows us to linger and that is perhaps the correspondence to our measure of what we call eternal. Time is eternal when we inhabit it deeply.

True play is a way of renouncing our desires, of transcending them and inhabiting the world in a completely different way, without expectations, without goals, without production. It is a way of scratching freedom and dwelling in the present moment. It allows us to access a new self that is more connected to the world.

True play is spontaneous and uncertain. We never know where it will take us, it is an experience in constant transformation, it is not about winning or losing. It is about inhabiting that moment.

To play is to dwell in the present.

"The maturity of man is to have found again the seriousness with which he played as a child." Nietzsche