Grab the bucket journal.
The Power of Speed
Fun has power that it disguises. Having a secret power seems like a pretty cool idea. If you check carefully, you already have one. Let’s travel back in time to experience it in its subtlety. In your youth you may have cracked open the door and run outside to play or you may have jumped out of the car as soon as it reached the park. The dashing is the signal. Speed is created by inside enthusiasm. You literally couldn’t wait to have fun, so your body moved more quickly than it did to make your bed. Think about how humans line up outside of the gates of our preferred places to have a good time. There is a mad dash to get to the fun stuff as soon as the doors open. It’s as if there is a sale on the good times.
Make another List
For lack of a better term, let’s call this a bucket list. I love those little buckets that gradually fill up with water at the waterpark and dump it on the head of the unsuspecting toddler. You know some adult designed that thing. This bucket list needs to fill up also so that it overflows and makes you move. This bucket list is the one that will include all those big, dreamy things you want to do for fun during your lifetime. This can include the yearly vacation with the family to the traditional spot that the whole family gathers in but that’s not the only line item. Those are usually closer to being required family check-ins created by the elders. They like to see all the younger folk having fun with all the same stuff they did to see how it looks from their chairs on the sidelines. There is always a lot of chuckling when someone gets hit with a raw egg. How is that really funny?
Fabulous Desires
Let’s list some dream-type choices. Imagine you always wanted to go to the moon. Put it on the list. You might have never shared that with anyone. We can all imagine the responses of those to that silly idea. But still put it in the list. It’s a no judgement list. And it doesn’t mean that it will happen, but it will ignite something else in you. Your dreams need a spark when you start living life. The general puzzle of living takes up a lot of energy. Attending Carnivale sounds mysteriously fabulous. Taking a solo trip to a minor mountaintop just to stare out at the world is a great idea. Reading one hundred children’s books with a family member would work. Learning how to bake bread spontaneously became fun during our staycation. Open water swimming intrigues me but I might never do it. But I get to think about it and that is joyful. Open up that journal, draw a stick picture of you hanging off of the Eiffel Tower and get started. Please draw me in at the bottom sipping a cafe au lait at a cute sidewalk bistro. It’s on my list.
Big Kid Fun
Being an adult doesn’t signal the end of fun. It means that it is time to have the fun of your choosing. Dream trips or experiences are different for all of us and don’t have to be shared or copied. In fact, when you create the dream fun of your own, don’t even think of posting it anywhere or sharing it unless you want the copy-caters to start doing it also. Life is singular at the best level. What is inside of you is not the same as anyone else. That means that what you place on your bucket list will fill you up. That is incentive to do as much as you want to see if you can make your life overflow with you. And if you go to the moon, hide the pictures.
Where is your first me-only fun destination? What adult fun can you invent this week? Can you draw a big bucket and list the wacky stuff that looks like a good time to you?
