What an amazing Leo season it has been.
It is true what they say about Leos, we are playful and we are fun. Throw in my Enneagram 7 personality, and you are in for a good time. Having fun, is just part of my make up.
I heard about a strategy to find out what your core values are and it came to NO surprise that FUN was a major one for me.
Imagine you are building a company on the moon… WHO are you bringing with you to make this company a success? Who- meaning what are the qualities you are looking for in these 3 people.
My immediate answer was:
- You better have someone that is fun… the cheerleader! Someone enthusiastic and positive, who is gonna not only motivate the team, but also market your campaign like no one else. This person knows how to have a laugh.
Then there was the solution based “get err done” chick followed by the dig down all the rabbit holes researcher girl.
So, fun?
What does fun mean to you? Is it a value at all? As we get older, do we we forget how to have fun? Do we want fun people around us?
I sincerely ask this, because it seems there is so much negativity in the world. Everyone is waiting to get offended. Not just politically, but just people’s existence makes others angry. I also see, that if you choose not to be offended and a “Debbie downer”, but rather, you choose to be positive and fun… that is a sin in itself. Now more than ever, I feel like FUN is a bad thing.
Personally, I feel we need more fun. Fun in our work places, fun in our parenting, fun in our friendships, and fun in our “aloneness”.
This is what I’ve contemplated as I close out this wonderful decade known as THE THIRTIES.
I don’t think I realized what fun meant to me during my early part of the decade. I often focused on my values of loyalty, intelligence, creativity, etc… but lately I’ve really been embracing and expressing fun as an asset. I refuse to give into the miserableness of the world… no matter how bad it gets…I get to chose my own headlines.
There were many hard things to deal with in my 30s. The death of my grandparents was really hard on me. My oldest getting hit by a truck and the MANY surgeries that followed… I spent lots of nights crying. There were job complications, health issues, moves, accidents, and lets not forget COVID…but if I had to give a label to my 30s, it would be… you guessed it… FUN!
I don’t ever want to lose my laser focus I have on the plenty positives in my life. If I lose that focus.. then I will go FORCE the fun! I will never advocate for not embracing all your emotions, but we don’t have to sit with the ones that aren’t good for us.
I assume many new roller coaster events await in my 40s, but what will I do with those experiences? Will I allow them to make me hard and bitter?
I hope as I age, that my laugh gets crazier and I forget what it even means to be offended. I hope that I have more fun and seek fun people to be in my life.
So for me, fun is my biggest asset and a definite core value. Fun doesn’t mean you don’t work hard. Fun is just “an authentic expression of freedom, joy, and happiness!”
My hope is to spontaneously whistle the tune that comes to mind, snort laugh at myself and all the blunders I make, hug my friends (if Covid will ever let me) tighter than tight, jump higher even if it hurts my knees, eat every donut and embrace that extra weight of happiness… or better yet invent a really good gluten-free donut.
I hope fun, gets more fun with age!
Fun can be found in something as simple as a good book, singing in the car with my kids, sitting in silence next to a friend (preferably at a spa-ahem- Cathy) a long nature walk, or eating Mexican alone.
If push comes to shove and we gotta force that fun, I know for a fact that fun can be found with a plane ticket to Panama…anytime.
Thank you sweet friends for the fun you have provided and shared with me these years, not just my birthday. I plan to make the last year of my 30s the FUNNEST one yet!
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