Go with the flow (19/100)

Tennis this morning was excellent. I experienced 'flow' as I've been reading about in Mihaly Csikszentmihaly's book of the same title. I was acutely focussed on the game and could hone in on particularly fascinating aspects of it. For a while I watched the rotation of the ball and how it changed when hit or bouncing off the ground; then I listened to the sounds of the game; for a time I felt my body doing what it needed to do to hit the ball accurately and smoothly. All this concentration meant that I mostly zoned out the other people playing around me, even the guy watching us and the angry man we'd taken the court from. Normally those factors would cause me mis-hit because my attention would be divided between playing and self-analysing. Aside from the mindful pleasure of this morning's game, tennis also was drug-free pain relief for the powerful menstrual cramps I've had since last night. Therefore, for those reasons I'm thankful we played tennis this morning.