A Walking Bocce Ball Game?

People come to the park to do many different things. Just in the area I can view from my bench I see people walking their dogs, jogging, playing baseball, kids playing, three guys practicing rock climbing moves, and a walking game of Bocce Ball. That's right Bocce Ball. The only reason I know what they were doing is I asked them as the game progressed by my bench.

Three of them were playing, two guys and a girl. They first throw the smaller ball or "pallina," and then throw eight larger balls called "boccia," trying to get them as close to the "palina" as possible. The players with the closest "boccia" to the "palina" scores. The game is usually played on a court and not across a park, but they were having fun while getting some exercise.

It made me realize that fun is one of the great motive powers of human behavior. The ability of all of us to do something that is good for us and do it on a regular basis has a lot to do with the "fun factor."

I suppose we should all be intrinsically motivated to do what's good for us no matter what the fun factor might be. Yet, as I view things from my bench all around me people have discovered not only what's good for them but also fun ways to do it.

Tim