Learning Challenge: Routine

For today's learning challenge, I watched the video Alike by Daniel Martinez and Rafa Cano Mendez. I really enjoyed this video! The story is centered around a father and his son. They live their life by working and going to school. As they make their way to work and school, all the buildings and other people are bland in color, while they are the only ones who have color or metaphorically, "life." The son loves to have fun and utilize his artistic abilities. However, the monotonous routine of school and the inability of him to express his art eventually drains him. He loses his color. This is also the same for the father. However, he had succumbed to this routine. Eventually, the father breaks out of his routines of continuous work when he realizes his son is following the same path as he. The father takes his son to have fun, and they gain back their color.
This video shows me not to get bogged down with work and school. Though these are important things, we also have a life to live. There is beauty in this world and it would be a crime not to go out and see it. We need an equal balance between school, work, and play. I have been focusing more on work and school. I will start incorporating more play into my life, in a healthy way.

Learn, work, and have fun: Public Domain Art