Oh What Fun It Is

Oh What Fun It Is

While you unconsciously dull your life away with constant studying, something stirs in you that something is not quite right. Well, you are right! You have forgotten how it is how to have fun. You have forgotten to have fun in your life, the one thing that matters to you, however unconsciously, when you were a first grader.

You have somehow forgotten what fun is among the valorous ways you have entrenched yourself in the mastery of your subject, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Office 2013, Math, or any other subject, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

What is fun? Fun is sometimes hard to pin point down, especially when you always end up with an activity that you thought was fun but realized was not fun at all after you had tried it. Then you try to do another activity, then you realized it shared the same characteristic as the previous one, that it was not fun at all either. Such is the quest for the elusive fun that some people, if not most people, find themselves in the predicament.

Alas! You have found this website at this place and at this time. And now I will tell you the secret all along into what you have been looking for and pining for, for a very, very long time -- what fun is.

Fun is you. The "you" when you were a first grader.

Can you remember the things that were fun to you when you were just a first grader in elementary school? If you can, then bless you for you have a good memory. If you can't then, you'll have to jog your memory back to those long ago days when times were simple and unencumbered by the old and new stuff that somehow now creep into your mind now and then when you let it.

What is fun? To me, it is the nickel that my mom often gave me before I went to school in the first grade. It was a shiny new silvery nickel. And I wondered what to do with it. I knew I could use it to buy candy from the school store. But then I will have no more nickel and the candy will be gone. So I often tucked it away in my khaki shorts pocket as a reminder that my mom gave it to me as a token of her love for me, not that I know what love is for I did not know what love is at 6 years of age. Life was so much simple then when love was not in the equation.

What else is fun, other than that silver nickel? All you have to do is remember your Mommy Chelsea, your Nana, or your Nanay, or your Mom, or whatever name you called your mother, that woman who has been given her own special day of the year called Mother's Day, just because she is a truly special person, more than you can actually remember, imagine, or consider.

Do you even realized that your mother was your only source of fun in those days? You didn't have any idea what fun is or what things are out there that can cause so much fun, not when you were just 6 or 7 or 8 years old.

So what else was fun when you were a first grader? It was that little toy that your mommy gave you now and then, unless your mom gave you too many toys that none of them holds no more special meaning to you since you are overwhelmed by their quantity.

Yes, you only need one thing that your Mommy Chelsea or whatever name you now call your mom has furnished you to know what is fun and have fun. And just remember this quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of the children's book named "The Little Prince":

"If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars."

Your loyal fan in You having lots of fun,

John Sindayen