Are We Having Fun Yet? The Serious Business Of Having Fun
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | When was the last time you had fun? No, really think about it. What we're doing, who you're with, did it feel fun? I mean, I'm too ashamed to admit the number of hours I've spent looking at my phone laughing |
| 0:14.4 | at Tik-Tocks or embarrassing tweets that I found funny, but was that fun? |
| 0:20.6 | A lot of people, especially adults with bills to pay, maybe even malice to feed, aren't even sure how to have fun. |
| 0:28.0 | I mean, maybe we take fun to seriously. Consider this producer Brianna Scott |
| 0:31.6 | searched How to Have Fun on Google. |
| 0:34.4 | All right Google show me what you got. |
| 0:36.7 | How to have fun? |
| 0:38.2 | And about a Gagillion search for results came up? |
| 0:42.0 | Go zip lining, okay, let's do something on the ground. |
| 0:46.0 | Place charades. |
| 0:48.0 | Suck at that, but a possibility. |
| 0:51.0 | Wait, declutter my home, dude, no, that's not fun. Make a short movie. Who am I? A24? |
| 0:59.7 | Geez, how do I have fun? |
| 1:01.6 | And if you search on YouTube, you'll come across a ton of videos of people giving tips on how to have fun. |
| 1:07.0 | Five fun things to do with your friends. |
| 1:10.0 | Don't get bored while staying at home. Here's some actually fun things that you could do |
| 1:13.1 | while you're inside. You don't go to go just have fun. You have to generate fun. |
| 1:17.6 | If you want to do something else with your time, here are a hundred and one ideas. |
| 1:21.3 | A few weeks ago, the Washington Post published a story by Karen Heller with a simple headline, |
| 1:25.8 | Fun is Dead. Heller writes that people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to hire a party coach, |
| 1:32.0 | take seminars and workshops all to figure out how to have fun. |
| 1:36.4 | But maybe it's easier than we think. |
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