Do you take time for fun? If not why not?
Do you take time for fun? If not why not?As I’ve shared with you before, my time in my Friday pool exercise class really is so much fun! Especially when we get to use the outside pool.
I was in the outside pool with our instructor and about 18 people this past Friday and once again I felt myself smiling and feeling like a little girl! Being outside in the early morning sunshine, birds singing and working my body in a gentle and effective way in the water, makes me feel alive, joyful and young!
I started thinking about what else do I do on a regular basis that creates this fun in my life?
What about you? What can you do to take time for fun?
Furthermore, as I wrote several weeks ago, “happiness is always an inside job”.
For instance, when I spend time with my grandkids, we do lots of fun things. Being with children and especially if you’re fortunate to have grandchildren, really is so much fun! They are so innocent and open and looking for fun all of the time.
Kids don’t need to think about creating fun. They live it many of their moments.
What happens as we get older and we don’t make time for fun?
Life and adult responsibilities get in the way. Before we know it, we’re living on that auto-pilot I speak of and we’re going about the motions of living.
It’s up to each of us to remember what it is that we truly enjoy doing and do it often!
I love to listen to music and sing. It makes me feel energized and alive!
I was fortunate to have a childhood where we spent most of our summers outside at the park next door.
Since there were activities Monday-Friday planned by the Parks Department and the two supervisors assigned to our park, we truly enjoyed our summers.
Because we walked or rode our bikes everywhere, we noticed so much about nature and other people.
Much of the summer we played kick the can at night before the street lights came on and we all had to go home.
There was Barbie Land in our backyard some days, for everyone to come and set up this imaginary doll neighborhood with girls and boys alike!
Yes even the boys joined in!
We played four square, wrote with chalk on the cement, played organized softball at the park and so many other things.
We collected empty glass bottles that people left in the park to redeem at the local candy store for penny candy.
As a result, it was “take time for fun” most of our moments!
I find now at almost 69 years young, when I do things that bring back these wonderful childhood memories, I always create fun.
So I ask you again, what can you do to take time often for fun?
I’m making a decision right now to create more fun in my own life regularly. What about you?
Leave me a comment below about what you will do to take time often for fun!
Here’s to fun, joy and living a life you love,
Connie
PS. Recently, I took our two middle grandkids to the open house of my friends Faerie House near me. They make beautiful ceramic faerie houses. My daughter, Abby and her two young children joined us after naps.
Here is the link to contact them if you want to buy one for yourself or as a gift:
PSS. Below are photos from our time at the Faerie House, June 1, 2024. Some are inside an actual underground Hobbit House!
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