What does fun look like to you?
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To me the most important thing is making your life better. Often these things aren't fun (tidying the house / getting some exercise etc.) but they are rewarding. I guess it would be great if there were fun things in my life, but basically I just want to avoid bad things in my life. I envy how people can have so much fun watching a game of football on TV, but then I think does that game, does that 'fun' activity make my life better and for some it does but for me it doesn't.
These are in different catefories or flavors of fun. Being somewhere safe with a pot cup of hot black tea on a snowy winter morning in the mountains. Reading &/or having someone tell me positive stories, or interesting things about nature, science, math or history. Getting a painting just right. The last mile of a long run. Hiking in unspoiled places. Playing cribbage with someone easy-going.
(sorry I almost messed that up)
(sorry I almost messed that up)
Sometimes I write comedy, which is a lot of fun. I've done stand up. Tonight I can't sleep because in my head I'm writing a piece about a race I ran as a child and I came in last, and they actually gave me a black ribbon. All the other girls got colors and I got black. That black ribbon stands out in my mind as representing my place in life - last place. I threw the stupid ribbon away but I couldn't discard what it represented. The Omega. Thanks for playing. You lose. What's funny is that someone actually thought it would be a good idea to give a kid a black ribbon for coming in last. They couldn't do dark purple or green or navy? Oh well. At least black is always fashionable.
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Wow! Thatās incredibly poor of a school to do that to a child. I canāt imagine how hurtful that was. My childrenās school had 1st, 2nd and 3rd place stickers and then standard stickers for all the rest who competed. Absolutely nothing to show that a child came last. I really hope things like that donāt happen nowadays.
I completely understand what itās like to not be able to have fun or feel any form of positive emotion. I was like that for a long time, until my dr finally diagnosed bipolar and put me into meds which seem to have helped. Now I can occasionally find myself having fun or laughing, and whatās nice is that I tend to acknowledge that itās happening while itās happening. Perhaps because itās so new to me atm.
One sure fire way to see me smile and laugh: Watching funny cat videos with my children. They tend to save them for me on Instagram and then occasionally sit next to me to show me the collection of funny videos. 90% of them are cat related!!! Itās nice to laugh together.
One sure fire way to see me smile and laugh: Watching funny cat videos with my children. They tend to save them for me on Instagram and then occasionally sit next to me to show me the collection of funny videos. 90% of them are cat related!!! Itās nice to laugh together.
