RULES
When I say that word, the people who hate rules scream, "Too many rules!"
"Screw the rules! Do whatever you want!" they chant.
But, in the improv of life, there are "rules" for everything.
Would it help if whenever you hear the word "rules", you think "parameters"?
Parameters are boundaries, they're guidelines.
Every. Single. Part. Of. Life. Adheres. To. Rules. Or. Parameters.
You can break them -or try to break them.
I'm grateful to the folks who created the airplanes in which we are able to fly to quickly get to other parts of the globe. These visionaries applied thought and different parameters to break the law of gravity.
I saw these: Images from Brickcon
If you click on the link, you'll see photos of amazing things that artists created out of Lego Blocks.
Lego blocks have rules. They have rigid, plastic parameters. Yet, artists create an endless array of amazing art pieces out of these rigid, rule-filled bricks.
Instead of screaming "no rules" and banging their heads against the IDEA of rules, the greatest artists instead sing, "I'll create within the rules, within the parameters."
I love that.
In your own personal life improv, are you stuck, repeatedly bashing your head against the rules? Or are you free, repeatedly using the rules to inspire you to express yourself?
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