This is why 2016 should be about appreciating what we have and finding more ways to relax and have fun.
'Have fun' is such a corny term - I hate it. Its ambiguous, pressuring and imaginary - talking about things you want to do but never feel satisfied doing.
I believe fun should have a personal definition - one which comes from knowing yourself fully and being un-inhibited about it. Feels like including "fun", including many others concepts like 'attractive' have been hijacked by mainstream media to mean doing something that gives you an adrenaline-rush, something that has questionable morals and sanity. Perhaps, we would find it easier to have 'fun' if we stuck to our internal definition of it - the things that make our stress seems far away and the best things in life close at hand.
Let's face it - in today's day and age - stress is like a part of breathing. The pressure to go forward, to progress, to 'keep it together' is so high - that many times, one would feel like there is literally nothing going for us. That all the things we want for ourselves are so far away and here we are - working like cogs in a huge invisible machine - never destined to chance upon that glorious and indescribable sensation of fulfillment and happiness.
Here's my definition of fun - being able to smile when you cook although you are tired. Laughing when your son says you are too fat to fit into that newly dry-cleaned ghagra. Chuckling when you see your neighbor's trying to walk two leashed dogs while checking the phone.
its not epic. Its not planned. Its nothing you can show on facebook. But its simple, its every day and it comes from slowing down or focusing on the moment long enough to see the funny side. Stress has stolen from me and my family the contentment and peace that should come with being as blessed as we are. Its tiring to give in to worry, stress, agony over goals and self-doubt.
And that's why 2016 is about forgiveness, doing less, being more and having fun. Yes, 'fun'.
'Have fun' is such a corny term - I hate it. Its ambiguous, pressuring and imaginary - talking about things you want to do but never feel satisfied doing.
I believe fun should have a personal definition - one which comes from knowing yourself fully and being un-inhibited about it. Feels like including "fun", including many others concepts like 'attractive' have been hijacked by mainstream media to mean doing something that gives you an adrenaline-rush, something that has questionable morals and sanity. Perhaps, we would find it easier to have 'fun' if we stuck to our internal definition of it - the things that make our stress seems far away and the best things in life close at hand.
Let's face it - in today's day and age - stress is like a part of breathing. The pressure to go forward, to progress, to 'keep it together' is so high - that many times, one would feel like there is literally nothing going for us. That all the things we want for ourselves are so far away and here we are - working like cogs in a huge invisible machine - never destined to chance upon that glorious and indescribable sensation of fulfillment and happiness.
Here's my definition of fun - being able to smile when you cook although you are tired. Laughing when your son says you are too fat to fit into that newly dry-cleaned ghagra. Chuckling when you see your neighbor's trying to walk two leashed dogs while checking the phone.
its not epic. Its not planned. Its nothing you can show on facebook. But its simple, its every day and it comes from slowing down or focusing on the moment long enough to see the funny side. Stress has stolen from me and my family the contentment and peace that should come with being as blessed as we are. Its tiring to give in to worry, stress, agony over goals and self-doubt.
And that's why 2016 is about forgiveness, doing less, being more and having fun. Yes, 'fun'.
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