Life Isn’t Meant to Be Fun. It’s Meant to Be Lived.
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Hey, its been a while…
i took a break because i needed it. But recently, i’ve been thinking about how we enter life with so much to learn and so little understanding of the world around us. We watch our parents, observe the adults in our lives, imitate their behaviours, absorb their beliefs, and gradually become people shaped by the world we grow up in. Through curiosity, experience, observation, and socialisation, we begin to understand who we are and how we are expected to exist.
But how much of who we become is truly our own choice, and how much of it have we simply learned from the people and systems around us?
As we grow older, life begins to reveal a different reality. The freedom we once imagined adulthood would bring comes with bills, responsibilities, expectations, uncertainty, and an endless list of things to worry about. There is always something to figure out, something to prepare for, something to care about, or something demanding our attention.
And somewhere along the way, we begin to question whether life is actually supposed to be fun.
Perhaps life was never meant to be an endless pursuit of happiness. Perhaps it is simply something we are here to experience, navigate, understand, and live. Fun is wonderful, joy is necessary, and happiness matters, but none of them is guaranteed to be a permanent state of existence.
Life isn’t necessarily meant to be fun. Life is meant to be lived.
What that life looks like, however, is a decision we must learn to make for ourselves. We get to decide what matters to us, what we want to pursue, what we are willing to sacrifice, and what kind of meaning we want to give our existence.
In this video, I reflect on growing up, the way we are socialised into becoming who we are, the realities of adulthood, and the freedom that comes with deciding what we want to make of our lives.
Maybe the question isn’t whether life is supposed to be fun. Maybe the better question is: What kind of life do you want to live?
Let’s talk about it.
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