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Hi Maam,

Here is my attempt to write the speech on “Importance of playing and never giving up on play, no(doesn't) matter what age you have hit."

Topic of the speech : Let's Play (Or You can suggest something better)

OpeningBodyConclusion

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Opening :

I will start with the below counting out Rhyme :

Akar bakar bambay bo

Asi nabay pooray sao

So mein lagga dhaga

Chor nikal ke bhaga.

Now i will try to involve/connect with the audience by taking them down to the memory lane of there childhood. We can do it in following ways :

Either by saying like “Good evening toastmasters and my dear guest.! ” Does this remind you of your childhood days?
For me it reminds me of summer holidays of 8th standard when i used to play with all my cousin brothers and sisters. Tirelessly counting out as many time as there were children before we begin hide and seek, four corners, ice and water. But after that I could not recollect any memories of me playing tirelessly.

I completed my high school. Then completed my Inter / 12th No play. Like this 4 years passed.

Then few years of toil to get into some reputed college, forget reputed just some college. Then semester by semester year passed. Got good job.

Why i have not played in those years. Board exams, senior class ,more studies, pressure, stress, time constraint, , procrastination or you think someone will be watching your back when you will play. We never played.

Later in life again we got something else.

Sometimes we teach ourself that we are no more children who will go out in the field every weekend or every evening with bat in hand . We have better work to do.

When you had seen your classmates, hostel mates playing tt after college, or your colleague playing, i can bet that these thought must have ran through your mind

you think you don’t know to play, you become shy, or for girls they find

boys occupying the playground. You will not know how to ask them. You will wait till they finish. Or you will try to come later.

But it never happen. You will never find the place empty.

you will not have the companion with you , who has the same willingness as that of yourself.

But over the time i have realized the advantages of playing are so huge which can overlook all these barriers.

play lights up the brain like nothing else.

And in the process we get new connections, sort of new maps, and we also get mood uplift. We also get other kinds of connectedness that I think is good for us.


From the animal world example :

In the animal world, if you take rats who have - who are hardwired to play at a certain period of their juvenile years, they squeak, they wrestle, they pin each other - that's part of their play. If you stop that behavior on one group that you're experimenting with and you allow it in another group that you're experimenting with, and then you present those rats with a cat odor-saturated collar, they're hardwired to flee and hide. But the non-players never come out. They die. The players slowly explore the environment and begin again to test things out. That says to me that play may be pretty important for our survival.

Now you can ask me What about, like, grown-ups? I mean, do you think that play can keep shaping and developing our brains - I mean, even as fully developed adults?

Absolutely. I think there's evidence that it can. There really are some very heartening signs, even in a dementia ward, that when you bring play into a dementia setting that is specified for the play type that that person once enjoyed, that their need for medication and their level of agitation goes down as they get playful. So this is part of from birth to death there is a presence in our beings for playfulness.

Play is a safe place to learn, it enables one to fail constructively. How many wonderful accomplishments began with playing and utter failures.



We as adult don’t know how to do it ? We don’t know how to play. Yes it is as simple as just carry the soft ball anywhere .

Next time you saw group playing tt in your office just stand near to them and follow the game and tell them you will play one match after that you can carry on.

Just bring the dart-board at your house.

My husband wish to have the bar counter. I wish to have the sports club with tt table, fuse ball table,

You can play tt tirelessly with wall. as i did in girls hostel , where no one was there to play.

Take break use the tt table, pull few friends . It will bring the cheer on your face and will kill the monotony of the daily work.



Different people have different meaning associated with playing. For me it is sports like running, khokho. For my cousin it is swimming. for you may be taekwondo, TT, BADMINTON, SQUASH, POKER, FUN ACTIVITIES . cricket, football, tennis. guitar,





Humans are hardwired for playing. Don't let those wire loose. Never stop playing.



Advantages of playing

It develops stamina and bring us good health.
It bring cheers on our face.
It releases pressure of the work.
It distress us.
It help inculcate team building spirit.
We socialize and we get to talk on interesting topic other that usual talks. We learn the intricacies of the game.
Satisfaction of learning something new each time you play.
We indulge so much so that we loose the track of time. Isn't this a great feeling.
This is the one activity which we don't do it for money. we play for fun.
We bond on the grounds of sports/games .
We can play with strangers. we connect and we empathise.
this removes monotony from our life. We are slaves of the routine.
We learn. we develop learning habit. Fast learning.