The Joy of Losing Ourselves

That wonderful sense of losing ourselves in an activity occurs less frequently when we leave childhood.

Yet, as adults, most of us still get to experience it from time to time.

It can happen when drawing or sewing, playing a musical instrument, analysing a chess position, playing a sport or dancing.

It can happen whenever we engage in any challenging activity not merely as a means to an end, but rather as an end in itself.