Fun and Play

            One of the most interesting things that I think the class has talked about is tickle and how important it is to our development. It is something that I have never really thought about before. I know that I have been tickled, mostly by my parents when I was a child, but I never once thought that they might have been an important moment in my relationships. I had always presumed that most of my familial relations were strong because they are the ones who fed, clothed, and protected me as a child, and not because they were the first people that tickled me. I forgot how important tickle, and more broadly play, is for human development. This realization has helped since reading it. No, I am not going around trying to tickle people in order to gain friends, but I have been more friendly and fun around my current friends. It has led to stronger relationships and more bondedness between us. Fun is important part of friendship. I know that many times conversations with my friends turn into us simply remembering fun times that we have had. We don’t necessarily have to even have had to do any thing recently, but just reminiscing about fun times together builds stronger relationships. I guess, the point of this blog is to express the importance of having fun with the people in your life; this will lead to better relationships. You will then want to hangout together more leading to fun, leading to stronger relationships. It is an upwards cycle of fun and friendship.