Childhood Fun

Fun is something that you allowed yourself to experience; it cannot be given to you or done to you.

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. This fun comes from a pure heart. You 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 as you watch: the delight that flashes across the eyes of a child who discovers that water flows with the turn of the tap knob or the pleasure from another young baby whose tongue is being tickled by cold ice cream; then there is 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. You can begin this process by reminiscing about what was fun for you 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. Try to spend a few moments with each memory, and really feel what it was like to be in those good old days experiences – allowing that feeling of pure fun to wash over you. It lives, in you – that feeling. It can't be bottled, manufactured, or sold. You just have to call it back in order to experience it again.

Pure fun occurs when we are totally engaged with ourselves and our world in each moment. It is the delight that bubbles out of us when we let go long enough to make it happen; it is the experience of natural, organic pleasure that springs up from our bellies, through our entire being. We have naturally known what it takes to have pure fun from our childhood and the flicker of lights caused us to jump to attention from the sheer enjoyment of being able to see. Approach your life today with the knowledge that pure fun isn't something that is given or done to you; rather, it is something that you allow yourself to experience. Have a nice day.