Once again, I’m sure most of you feel the same way I do when it comes to having fun. When you’re a kid all you want to do is play. Kids see the fun in everything, and play until they’re tired. That’s what being a kid is all about, playing and having fun. As we become older, fun time becomes restricted. We are given recess to have fun. Recess is the time where we are being told to, “go be crazy, have fun, this is the time to have fun.” We are programed to have fun at a certain time, and for a short time, then we are expected to be serious. We are not taught to have fun all the time. For example, we have all heard the phrase, “behave now and you will have time to play at recess on the jungle gym.” At a young age, we begin to process this message, and learn we can only be happy and have fun when we are told to, or given permission to. As we get older, we lose more playtime when we start high school, and the only time we have to be silly or have fun with our friends is while we eat our lunch and talk with out mouths full. As we get older we lose play time altogether. We become adults, work nine to five, and unfortunately don’t make or find time to play. We bottle up all this desire to have fun. When you’re an adult, you cant just stop to just stop what you’re doing and, and have recess, or play and enjoy life. The only time most adults get a sense of recess, or playtime is if they’re at a wedding, living in the moment, and just having fun. Dancing, laughing and having fun all night brings them back to there childhood where they were given time to have fun. Dancing at the office just doesn’t happen. Unfortunately, most adults wait for a wedding, or special occasion to have fun, like going out for recess and that is very annoying. It seems to be when you become older you put on a mask of maturity that falls off when you’re living in the moment and loving life. I will often times here people say“, sitting on my couch and watching the sun while listening to the birds chirp was a wasted the day.” Once again, that’s our inner kid feeling like we needed permission do that. The same goes for people who only think they have to be on vacation to sit around, relax and do nothing. I think if we want to sit around and do nothing for a few hours and live in the moment we should. From an early age we’ve been programed into thinking we have to wait for that right moment. As we get older, we think of what needs to be done tomorrow, or the following day. We need to start thinking like kids again, have fun now. and not wait for that wedding or vacation to enjoy life.