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Fun isn't something that is given or done to you, it is something that you allow yourself to experience As adults, we often get so caught up in "grown up"
business that we can forget how to have pure fun. This isn't the kind of fun
that comes from doing a specific kind of activity or being in a specific mood
for fun. Rather, this is the fun born from the state of pure being. You see
this kind of fun in small children who are so busy being fully present to
their lives and in their own bodies that the glow of fun radiates from them
just because they are alive: the delight that flashes across the eyes of a
child who discovers that water flows with the turn of the tap knob or the
squeal of pleasure from a young baby whose tongue is being tickled by cold
ice cream; then there's the full, infectious laughter of a child watching the
same hat trick for the fiftieth time. Back when we were children, this experience of pure delight didn't have to
come from a heightened, heady event in order for us to feel like our day had
been made; and it can be that way for us again -- if we are willing to
remember and reconnect with that part of ourselves that knows how to be in
the flow of fun. You can begin this process by reminiscing on what was
fun for you as a child. Think about what caused you to giggle in delight or
wriggle in pleasure or burst into endless laughter that you couldn't sit up
straight no matter how much you wanted to. Try to spend a few moments with
each memory, and really feel what it was like to be in those experiences --
allowing that feeling of pure fun to wash over you. It lives, in you -- that
feeling. It can't be bottled, manufactured, or sold. You just have to call it
back up in order to experience it again.
Pure fun happens when we are fully engaged with ourselves and our world in
each moment. It is the spontaneous delight that bubbles out of us when we let
go long enough to bring it through; it is the experience of natural, organic
pleasure that springs up from our bellies, through our souls, up through our
faces, and down to our toes. We've naturally known how to have pure fun since
we were babies and the flicker of lights caused us to jump to attention from
the sheer enjoyment of being able to see. Approach your life today with the
knowledge that pure fun isn't something that is given or done to you; rather,
it is something that you allow yourself to experience.
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