All about fun!

FUN. A word most people are stuck on these days. It is equated in every way possible in all the activities of life. Be it lifestyle, marriage, job, education, etc. You leave your girlfriend because she is not fun anymore, you leave your job because its not fun anymore, you change your location because its not fun anymore, you change friends because they are not fun anymore! Fun is the underlying motivation for life’s major decisions for many of us today. It is the deciding factor. We shape our lifestlyle in such a way that it has zero tolerance for anything that is..god forbid..not fun!!

I say this today but i realized it a lot earlier. When i was young it seemed very logical. But now, if not wiser but at least a bit more aware of life, i find it a bit odd. When it is true that life without fun is not..well..fun , but should fun reign over our lives to such an extent that it controls and guides each and every emotion we feel and every decision we make and every thought we think? Is it really that important in one’s life that reason itself should be ignored so that it makes way for fun and more fun?

I know of people who spend thousands of Taka treating friends (with bank accounts full of money) in fancy places while they live frugally at home just because its fun to hang out with rich friends. I know of people who left jobs because they need time to drop off CVs to organizations that are more fun. I know of people (non smokers and non drinkers) who drink and smoke at social gatherings just because its fun to do so. I know of people who moved from Bangladesh to the US because its a more fun place to live in.

And i could go on forever with examples of people who jumped the bandwagon of fun and are happily rolling down the bumpy road of life. However, pretty soon we will find people losing their beliefs and taking on new ones because they seem like more fun! Pretty soon we will be so lost in having fun that we will lose the motivation to learn, to love, to give, to share, to…live…because god forbid if these should stop being fun!

~ by Simin on November 16, 2008.