Jerry Banfield

Would you let me tell you the story of learning about what it means to play again as an adult while showing how I actually do it during this live music video composition? All of us start as a child understanding how to play and benefiting from it. My daughter at less than two years old spends half her day playing without any goal for the outcome. As a young man, I started to forget what it meant to play as I started playing video games which initially were just for fun. In my teenage years, games started to be less fun and started more to be battles where I always had a certain objective to conquer in the game. Growing up a little more to an adult, I quickly lost most of a sense of true recreation in my life as I associated productivity with self-worth and playing as a waste of time. The moment of awakening came when I realized that what I thought was play in spending hours on League of Legends and Call of Duty rarely fit a wholehearted definition of play like Brene Brown uses. This definition focuses