I received this email from Cyn and asked for permission to post. It made me laugh/smile.
I was standing in line at the immigration office and there was this little baby boy and he was running around furiously. You could tell that he just learned how to use his legs and was still a little unstable. Anyway, he was running full speed for the door and then suddenly, he fell onto his knees. It was quite loud and all of us cringed because we felt badly plus we knew the wailing was about to start. But instead of crying, he just giggled and started going in the same direction crawling. It was amazing to me that his instinct was to keep moving forward and to not give up.
This little baby also taught me something else. After the run/crawl incident, I saw him run straight into a glass door. I have to admit, it was a little funny, and he did start crying after that for a little bit. Five minutes later, I see him running full speed for the glass door again and I am thinking that he is going to hurt himself once more. But right before he smacked into it, he stuck his hands out trying to push it away. Here he clearly demonstrated that if something isn’t working the first time (smacking into the door), do something different to try and get a different result. I don’t know how many times people do the same thing over and over again hoping to get a different outcome.
Babies are quite smart. How do we grow dumber as adults?! 🙂
