Work=Play=Fun...

Maybe the trick about work (see previous post): work should be play, and play should be abundant. So, yeah, always be working, which means really always be playing, even mundane chores can be transformed by making them a game. That game then sort of morphs into fun. Don't know how exactly that works, it seems it just happens. 

You remember fun don't you? I used to think that fun was over-rated, and maybe really that fun didn't exist, but now I think it's up to us, you can make pretty much anything fun, by a tilt of our perspective. It's an attitude that you bring to the moment.

I suppose there are limits, I mean, there are always limits, and our ideas can bump up against the wall of reality. So yeah, there are some jobs, some tasks, some adventures that are really, really not fun. This is when a bit of discipline comes in. I now think after many years of living that it's best to do the hard things first. Don't delay, don't put off, just plunge into the hardness of the hard thing. And do it.

Maybe it won't be fun, or child's play, but if you do it, it's done, so you can then move on to work, the good, the fun part.

Of course, there are some things in life that you just can't bluff around, playing the game doesn't really fly. I'm thinking of the great tragedies of life, you know, deep illness, madness, chaos, death, destruction, loss. When you are on the edges of experience, facing the black abyss, thoughts of work, play, fun, sort of vanish. Those times, you just endure, slog thru, carry on. It's okay to cry, to breakdown, to stop in your tracks, to just breathe. 

You hope those moments of deep tragedy will pass. Everything passes. And then it's back to work.