The Love of Repetition
Posted in Uncategorized, writing on October 14th, 2009 by andrew mackay – 1 CommentI have an 18-month-old son. I love him. He’s a heck of a lot of fun to hang out with. He’s learning in leaps and bounds lately, and it seems like everything you say to him gets repeated back to you.
Repeating is a funny thing, isn’t it? Ask me to do one thing over and over again for even a half hour and you’ll hear complaints and whining. Yet, my little boy can sit and do the same thing over and over again and find it fresh and hilarious every time. Patch the Pirate’s Worry Wart song? Absolutely hilarious the first, fifteenth and fifty-second time. You can snort right along with the singers. We’re good at snorting.
I think there’s a lesson for me to learn there. If you can enjoy something and see it in a fresh way, you’ll be much more apt to do it again and again. This may hold true for various things… writing, exercise, music practice… the sky is the limit. So maybe we all need a little childlikeness… especially when it comes to repetitive tasks.
