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. We 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. We can begin this process by reminiscing on what was fun for us 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. It lives, in us – 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.
As you go about the holiday season remember that pure fun isn’t something that is given or done to you; rather, it is something that you allow yourself to experience.
ps. feel free to share a belly aching, tear inducing, funny as hell incident which u have experienced for all of us to enjoy and have a laugh over too :0)
2 comments:
First of all sis ... u really need to change the font, i tot i was going blind!!!
When i watch my boys and the things they do and the things that makes them laugh, I admire them. They laugh at the craziest things and sometimes it's not even funny but to them it is. It just shows me how much fun kids have and not a care in the world ... I wish I could be like them. I guess I found my New Years Resolution - to have 'pure' fun.
Unfortunetly, I don't have any moments to share cause most of em, you just had to have been there. On that note ... to ALL may this year be filled with joy, fun and belly laughing moments!!
font thing noted, thanks....hehehe
gosh when i was writing this i remembered so many things we used to do growing up.....like the tickle fights where we grappled btwn laughing and/or crying...hhmmm i have photos of that somewhere, will have to scan and post it :)
i hear u on the fun, laughter and joy bit, babe! ... our year right??
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