Fun is part of the solution

You know how they say it takes only one student?

This email was the one from the one.

After I stopped crying, I decided to blog it, thus:

I was just taking some little bits and pieces of papers out of my journal and I found the following hard-copy of something your brother-in-law wrote to you:

"I find many if not most people today are not in a particularly
"fun-seeking" mood. They are preoccupied with finances, war, the economy
and personal problems. Fun, however, is a vital therapy no matter the
circumstances. The release of life's anxieties cannot have too many
channels, in my view. I....have a need to communicte via Fun to people. I
may not want to enter that Fun because I cannot overcome the 'troubles of
the day' without major incentives to do so. Fun may be good for me but I
can't seem to allow myself to enter in anyway. Perhaps I don't see fun as
the solution but rather as an escape from solving the problem(s). Funny,
when people most need the releases, they are less apt to seek them."

I am touched again by his honesty and his insight. I too feel unable to enter into Fun when so much feels wrong and sad and overwhelming in the world today, everyday. I forget your teaching, so to speak, that Fun IS part of the solution and not just a form of denial, an escape, a narcissistic indulgence at the expense of others who are not as fortunate as I am.

Just thoughts, which bring me back to the mindfulness practice that DeepFun is for me. It is the practice of Little Fun all the time, despite the trying external circumstances on this beautiful and fragile earth I love and despite the woe I see. And as I practice this path, I want to change my paradigm and begin to really believe that having fun, living fun, teaching fun, being fun, can transform this world, that it is part of the solution to the distress. IF not the world at large, it may have the power to transform MY little world, my circle of influence, I hope. And that is a step in the right direction.


(Yes, as it so happens, I will be conducting my next aformentioned September 5-10)).