What is fun? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as enjoyment, amusement, or light-hearted fun.

However, our perception of fun is fundamentally, and pretty much completely, a personal endeavour. What, why, how, and when we have or create fun is subjective to what, why, how, and when we believe fun is present. I think, for the most part, there are various things in society that are deemed fun by the masses: sports, hobbies, games, activities, socializing - all these examples are still quite broad. However, they can all contribute on a large scale to our enjoyment, amusement, or light-hearted fun.

I think, like many elements I've covered throughout my search for happiness, what fun is to you is all that really matters. What may be fun to you may not be at all enjoyable to someone else, but that's irrelevant. Finding happiness is a complex yet simplistic pursuit. The pursuit itself is the creation of the objective itself, in the search for happiness, by incorporating different aspects within our lives to form the basis of ourselves: our beliefs, morals, values, attributes, interests, and direction of growth - all contributing factors.

In order to grow, learn, develop, and intertwine our world with others and the universe, sometimes we can be left in a state of constant evolution without ever sitting back to stop and "smell the roses," to enjoy the fruits of our labour, or the fun that has been created around us.

Fun is an opportunity or a concept that allows ourselves an opportunity to do something without any preconceived notion as to an outcome, return, or result. An opportunity to participate, create, develop, or grow in any arena, purely because there is an instinctual drive or feeling of enjoyment, amusement, or light-hearted fun. A feeling of joy that creates a warmth in your soul that moves you, regardless of what anyone else thinks, something that simply makes you stand still in time, makes you feel alive, and helps you enjoy life.

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

Thanks,

Dean