What Is Fun?
September 28, 2020
Q: What kind of spiritual work should I make into a profession?
A: Satiate the work of propagating the joy of discovering fun.
Q: What is fun?
A: Fun is realizing the joy of living and breathing outweighs the dark/weight of death. Fun is being alive in the moment and re-discovering the capabilities to understand frolicking and play and “just because.”
Q: Does fun look different to adults than to kids?
A: Sometimes. Fun for adults can be lively conversations or listening to a lively band where the energy is manifested outside themselves, but the most benefit is to be had when fun manifests both inwardly and outwardly, through dance, motion, facial expressions, during storytelling. Kids may enjoy less introspective and body-dead activities, preferring movement by themselves through an external environment but to each fun is the transmuting of loose fears and anxieties into meaningful play. Sensations provide feedback loop that we are okay because we are relaxed enough to play and laugh.
Q: How can I best help people discover how to have fun and be playful?
A: Encourage dance parties, family game nights, ecstatic dance, weekly driveway fire pits with neighbors. Art is fun. And fun is an art form. Letting go enough to let creativity and play flow is an art of recognizing truth and what is important and choosing to celebrate those things rather than be fearful or angry about the things that don’t even matter anyway.
Q: What is my partner here to teach me?
A: Being trustworthy with one’s attention, love, time, energy is possible. Love cannot be stifled by thread-bare garments or stitches of tattered clothing. The remnant is designed to tell the truth when it is not convenient or fashionable. Trust the paradigm shift of trust in a relationship. That self-sacrificial love is possible and this is what is looks like. It doesn’t have all the sparkly, glimmering words of false amor but the silent, solid stance of fortress walls that protect and deflect arrows of the enemy and ammunition from the dark in times of fear. It is okay to trust and be vulnerable for there is the true progress made in connection.