Lately I've been thinking a lot about trying. About putting forth the effort to do something new. I realize that this sounds like a fairly simplistic topic. We tell our children every day to try again, try harder, try something different, but I often wonder why more adults don't put this into practice. Why don't we try more?
Quite often I will have acquaintances ask me how I do so much? They will say things like "Is there anything you can't do?" And my answer is "no. I am pretty sure I can do anything I want." Let me say this now...it's not because I am sure I will be good at everything; it's because I am willing to try just about anything. What is the worst that could happen? I'm bad at it? People laugh? It tastes horrible? Eh, none of that sounds all that awful. And trust me, I have tried a lot of things that didn't work out so well.
Something about this reminds me of going to the hill we use to snow tube. Seldom do we see any other parents going down the hill. They stand at the top, arms crossed, watching their kids have the time of their lives. Why? Why are they not diving in? What are they worried about? That they may not look mature? That parents are supposed to be serious? That they may have too much fun? Life IS fun, and what a better thing for your kids to see than the picture of you enjoying yourself, trying new experiences.
Last night I made pizza. For a week now I had been looking over all of these pizza recipes with a bit of trepidation. Then, yesterday afternoon, I just decided to use some of the bread dough I have in the fridge. I didn't follow a recipe for the pizza...just rolled the dough out into pizza shapes, topped them, and baked them at the highest setting my oven would go. Seriously, these things could have been a huge disaster and we would have been left with some fairly meager dinner options. Instead, these pizzas turned out beyond delicious. Good thing I tried. And you know what? When you try something new and it comes out brilliantly, well, there really is no feeling like it. Accomplishment. That's what it is.
