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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:47 am
The typical stereotype of a child, is that they're fun loving people, who love to act like monkeys, and play in the park, and the like, while the adult stereotype is the mirror oposite of this, and most their 'fun' involves whips, expensive cars, and hookers.
My question to you all is: Should growing up mean our definition of fun, and how we have it, changes? Does having a bank account, and a steady income, mean we have to leave our monkey bar-hanging ways behind? Does everything we for fun do have to mean our children's eyes are covered, and we go at it like rabbits?
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:01 am
No, it doesn't mean we have to redesign our definition of fun. However, as we age, what we find 'fun' will change. Swinging on monkey bars and all that is great and all, but I could find better fun by shooting some snooker or pool games at the local, or spending some time out on a long coastal hike.
Also, having a bank account, income, and all that simply means we have less time to have our own fun. It doesn't mean we have to leave things behind, just that we're pretty terrible at time-management. :3
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:31 am
Yeah...the good ol' days where your most important responsibilities were to beat your fellow students at "who's got the best lunch?".
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:06 pm
You know what I hate?
When people tell me to act my age and not my shoe size.
I miss being able to go on jungle gyms and the monkey bars and have naptime and things. I'm not all that old, but still...my responsibilites have been piling on.
But others, I'm SO happy I'm older. If I was 7, there would be no way my mom would have let my go see the Angels and Airwaves gig in central London.
Bah....got that Spiderman quote thing in my head, ya know..the one about responsibility...? Yeah, annoying. Hmm...I don't want to grow up completely JUST yet. PETER PAN WAIT FOR ME~~!
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:27 pm
If adults are not supposed to have fun, I'm a monkey's uncle (hint: I'm not a monkey, and I'm a girl so I couldn't be an uncle ever).
I have fun all the time. In fact, I have more fun than most people do. I see people denying themselves fun, and I see them doing things that are "supposed" to be fun, but that they don't act like they enjoy it at all. I find it humorous that when you become an adult, you're supposed to be even MORE neurotic about the social structure and cliques around you than when you were a kid.
I am getting married. People go "gee, aren't you going to have FUN first? Why would you want to get married?"
I'm sorry, but I missed the memo that said that once you get married that you have to do Serious Adult Married People Stuff.
I don't plan to have kids for another 5-6 years, so it's not like marriage is going to make me get pregnant. I also don't understand certain people's idea that having more sex partners=more fun.
If anything, I would think it would be vaguely unfulfilling (especially if you're dating people who don't care about pleasuring you) and make you feel used and confused.
Personally, I love my fiance, and I wouldn't have just decided to marry him on a whim. I want to be with him for the rest of my life. I want to travel together and get all the legal and social benefits of marriage. I want to go through taxes together rather than do them separately and get a biger tax break.
It's just...right for me.
So when people ask me why I'm having fun, and what I am possibly doing actually ENJOYING life, I say, "Well, if I am not enjoying life, then why should I stay alive?"
This isn't some kind of suicidal rant, but more of a....mantra.
If I'm not enjoying life, if I'm not using the body that I've been given to live in this life, then why in the heck am I here at all? I am not a hedonist, at least in the orthodox sense, but I cannot fathom living a life that is all appearances and no substance.
If anyone ever tells you that you need to "grow up" and stop having fun, tell THEM to grow up.
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:45 pm
Yes, it's annoying when you see people that can't find the humor in silly things because it's "immature." They think "maturity" means sitting around and talking, not finding the humor in, say, finding a baby doll on a stage for no apparent reason and finding it has a "ghetto booty". Sure, that's immature, but it's worse to go on about how stupid and immature it is to laugh about it.
Personally, I'm going to have as much fun as I possibly can. Then again, my idea of fun is anything that will potentially either injure me or kill me. Not all the time, but a lot of the time.
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:17 am
nope, Just the other day I was playing on the playgrounds with my friends.... lol a few 20somethings playing in an area for kids. I despite living in the area for over 10 years had never been to that park. While I listened to my friends recall tales of when they were younger.
I still enjoy going to the arcade, playing video games... in some ways... I guess I haven't 'grown up' yet I have. I guess for me I still take great pleasure in the simple things in life and try not to get caught up in the stresses of adulthood. I don't want to become a bitter old woman who has no sense of humor.
I guess its all on how the 'adult' handles the stresses of having more responsibility. if they let it consume them then yes their idea of 'fun'
changes.
however once I finish school... or really even now, I unfortunately will have a set of professional ethics that I have to follow. stare SO that will limit the amount of fun I have. Meaning that I can't go overboard. outwardly indulge too much to the public.
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:26 pm
if anything, maturation the right way = more fun. I mean, I still have fun watching cartoons and playing pointless video games, but I've been able to add in more 'adult' themed things such as sex and cybering to the mix. when I day dream I am no longer limited by certain areas in which I lack knowledge...it may not make much sense, but it's a rant....like...the green grammar gremlin armed with the paper sword of spellcheck striking down the insolent fools who would attack the english language with 'chat speak'....and NO, I DONT care if that makes me seem elitist. why? because the english language deserves to be spelled correctly and with good grammar. so says my caffinated rant!
Now then, if you can make sense of that rant....well, you'll see how it fits into this discussion.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:15 pm
Oni-Angel If adults are not supposed to have fun, I'm a monkey's uncle (hint: I'm not a monkey, and I'm a girl so I couldn't be an uncle ever). It's called a Sex Change operation 3nodding Seriously, though.... I think that Oni hammered down my POV on this pretty straight. Who says growing up means no longer having fun? Shouldn't that be the point above all else?
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:56 am
You know, I read the thread title as 'masturbation = less fun?' at first...
A lot of things which brought me joy as a child aren't quite as... intersting anymore. I mean, yeah, Sesame Street is still good and all, but I have a lot more trouble really getting excited about whether or not Ernie will find his cookie before Bert comes home.
On the other hand, some of the things I like to do haven't changed very much. I masturbated when I was 6 and I masturbate now.
A lot of it, I think, is that other things become enjoyable... Watching PBS news analysis shows would *not* have been fun to me when I was 10. Neither would have Lawrence of Arabia, one of my favorite movies...
But I think the main reason adults have less fun is that there just isn't time for it. Adults have to work, otherwise they can't make rent and end up homeless and starving on the streets...
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