The Fun of Happiness
So much about being happy is delicious that you just can’t say it all at once. But there’s one part of it that’s the icing on the cake, the cherry on the sundae, the top of the happiness mountain. It’s the way that being happy makes life fun.
Fun is letting the kid in you come out to play. It takes delight in discovery and sees the world through fresh, joyful eyes. Fun is happiness set free. It brims with love and energy, throwing kisses and candies from its float in life’s parade. It doesn’t care about troubles; it doesn’t even know they exist.
Fun is the sparkle of happiness. It ripples with laughter and shines with a sense of adventure. It turns all your senses up to full vivid so the world is sharp and dazzling and clear. Fun lets you know you’re alive. It’s tasting the cinnamon and touching a baby’s cheek and feeling the sand between your toes. It’s feeling the wind in your hair and seeing the stars and swooning to the strains of a symphony or some great jazz.
Fun is the creative side of happiness. It pokes and prods at things to see how they work. It invents things. It imagines and pretends. Fun asks, “What if?” It defies convention and colors outside the lines. It splashes in puddles and drums on fences just to hear the sound. It makes up songs and sings them out loud and doesn’t know or care if it’s carrying a tune. It likes puzzles and mysteries and games and finds them in the things that others label as work.
Fun is happiness in motion. It’s the gusto and glide of it, its swirl and dash. It’s the climb to the top and the free fall into the pile of leaves. It’s not needing to hold on to anything. It’s taking off the training wheels and testing your metal and skills. Fun is full of confidence. It dares the untried and can fall on its face laughing.
Fun is the zest of happiness. It’s happiness finding its way through the cracks and bubbling into the air. It’s letting your joy get the best of you and carry you away. And when it spends itself, you’re richer.
The wisest among us make sure to have some everyday. It’s free. And it’s easy! And all you have to do to get some is put on your kid hat and play.
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