5 Days of Opposites Challenge-Day One

Happy Monday Friends!

It's been busy over here at S&S.  I love group emails and group challenges.  Something magical happens when we all come together with our collective energies and focus on one idea.  We've had a series of emails challenges and classes that have been a lot of fun.  So far we've completed a 30 Day Fake It Til You Make it and a 21 Day Vegan Challenge.  Grand fun my friends.   

Thanks to a fellow Stunt Lover for the seeds of inspiration for this next shenanigan!  So what is 5 Days of Opposites??  We are going to stray from our usual patterns, either in reality or just in our imaginations, for 5 days and see what happens.  Today is  Columbus Day so to celebrate lets talk about 'recklessness'.  Full Disclosure about Mr. Columbus-the man was horrid.  Sure, he helped to discover new lands and helped prove the world was round but he did so by pillaging and a nasty 'take-no-prisoners' type of attitude.  Maybe it was a required skill-set for the job but not a great way to make and keep friends. 

Reckless is defined as heedless or careless, headstrong, rash, indifferent or disregardful to consequences. 

That said, a little bit of recklessness could be good once and a while....or at least dreaming of being reckless.  I find myself getting so bogged down in my regular routine that I long to just go nuts once and a while.  Nuts for me means running away to a villa in Italy for a month by myself with my yarn and my books.  Or getting in the car and driving across the country for 6 months and exploring the USA.  Or getting sleeve tattoos.  Or moving to the country and raising sheep.  Or going to Washington D.C., knocking on doors and giving congress a piece of my mind.  Or moving to France to a year to learn the language.  Or moving to Turkey and learning how to make the special flat breads.  Or have 10 kids. 

None of these ideas are particularly practical and would have disastrous consequences for me, a stay at home mom with a family on a budget, but it is fun to think about what it would be like to be just a LITTLE careless :)  

Maybe the best thing to think about today is not the horrid indifference and disregard that ol' Chris had for his fellow man but to focus on dreaming big and being a little headstrong.  I'm reminded that the immigrants that followed in his footsteps to a new land were certainly a little reckless in their dreams but look at what happened?  We have a country-not a perfect country-but a pretty great place to live non-the-less. 

What are your reckless dreams and ideas?  Make a list!  You know the rules.  Don't think, just write the first things that come to your mind.

Happy day darlings!