Life is meant to be enjoyable, playful and fun.
Unfortunately that is not the case. In fact, in my practice as a life coach when using the wheel of life, -a simple yet powerful tool, that gives both me and my client a clear snapshot of his/her life-, I often see people not only reporting extremely low satisfaction scores in the Fun and Recreation life sector, but are also having a hard time figuring out what is fun according to them -not according to current trends or society's perceived notions of fun- and more often than not, directly correlate having fun with spending money.
Life is 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows, accruing to the Buddha and it seems like after 8 to 10 hours of work and in spite our innate yearning for happiness, most of us are so focused on the 10.000 sorrows that we become almost blind to the 10.000 joys, patiently waiting to be lived and experienced.
We are so used to keeping ourselves busy, constantly working on proving (!!!) we are worthy, of appreciation, social acceptance, wealth or recognition, that we forget to stop from time time and simply Be. And even when we do stop, it's hard to invite joy into our lives, because we can hardly recognise it, anymore. We have forgotten how it feels to be playful, joyful and have genuine fun.
In reality, for all of us lost in the bustle of everyday life, figuring out what we consider to be fun, can take a lot of time and deep self exploration and even then, we might still end up exorcising fun and recreational activities to our weekends, suffocating our fun-deprived-selves into flat, dull, all-work-no-play, workweeks.
Life is 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows, accruing to the Buddha and it seems like after 8 to 10 hours of work and in spite our innate yearning for happiness, most of us are so focused on the 10.000 sorrows that we become almost blind to the 10.000 joys, patiently waiting to be lived and experienced.
We are so used to keeping ourselves busy, constantly working on proving (!!!) we are worthy, of appreciation, social acceptance, wealth or recognition, that we forget to stop from time time and simply Be. And even when we do stop, it's hard to invite joy into our lives, because we can hardly recognise it, anymore. We have forgotten how it feels to be playful, joyful and have genuine fun.
In reality, for all of us lost in the bustle of everyday life, figuring out what we consider to be fun, can take a lot of time and deep self exploration and even then, we might still end up exorcising fun and recreational activities to our weekends, suffocating our fun-deprived-selves into flat, dull, all-work-no-play, workweeks.