Just a little note...(random musings)

Okay, on here I am going to do a bit of something I said I wouldn't-- a bit of an online journal. I just wanted to share a thought I had tonight. I was hanging out playing with Alaina, trying to get her to practice coloring, and after she lost interest I decided to color a page myself. I spent a while coloring this page and it was great. I miss coloring!! Such a simple, relaxing task and in the end you are rewarded with a colorful, cheery picture. You can just completely blank out your mind to only focus on the basic task at hand. And I thought: Why is it that adults don't color? Obviously because it's an embarassing, too child-like thing for an adult to do. But why is that? Why is it that at a certain point in our lives it becomes inappropriate to color, unless of course the time comes when we have a child in our lives to use as excuse to engage in such a pleasing activity?

Speaking as a therapist and future psychologist, I would highly recommend this activity as something for patients to do--if I wouldn't be laughed at (and wanted my patient to return). Really, shouldn't we all just relax and lose ourselves in coloring more often????