Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.
I look at it somewhat as a way - when you learn juggling, what you learn is how to feel with your eyes and see with your hands because you're not looking at your hands, you're looking at where the balls are, or you're looking at the audience.
I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.