Master puppet of the Universe

To be a puppet or to be a master puppet. This is not a question.

When my niece was a young child, I found myself unused to playing with children. In the back of my mind, I was always thinking about work and playing with her at the same time. My imagination was not able to keep up with her playthings, like cosmetic bottles being orange juice or necklaces being pasta.

How strange that I never lived in the present and never had the imagination and the creativity to play! I decided that when I played. I wouldn’t think about work and wouldn’t think just feel, just go with the flow. In this way, as I was in tune with the children, I began to feel that my frequency was somehow the same as theirs.

When I play with my nieces and nephew, I turn off the left side of my brain and create a game on an improvised basis. Maybe I am receiving ideas from the universe. Recently, my niece said about me handling two pairs of puppets at the same time, “Hitomi-chan, you were switched on just now.“ When I hold the puppets, my voice changes, and the lines come out by themselves. It really hit my nephew’s spot and he felt about laughing.

My client experimented with playing with her daughter more actively during the Golden week holiday. Then, like me in the past, she found herself thinking, “It’s my day off, so I have to catch up with my work I haven’t done yet.” and be always being on edge. Even when she was playing Othello, she was thinking, “How can I lose to her.”

The sudden thought of the client, “I’m going to play actively with my daughter”, is a sign that she has received an invitation from the theater that is the Universe. She could become a master puppet in the Universe!