June 4th, 2007
Creativity And Fun
I recently attended a professional meeting where the topic was creativity.
We answered the question of “what does creativity mean to me?” by calling out the words that we related to the word creativity. Two popular correlated words were “play” and “fun.”
Fun.
What do I do for fun? I can honestly say I truly enjoy my life, but what do I like to do to have rip-roaring fun?
Following this meeting, answering this question has begun a rich and thought provoking journey for me to think about the concept of, “What do I consider to be fun for me and how do I play?” When I think about this, I wonder why I have so much trouble defining what fun means to me. I could say that I enjoy my life, but the majority of my recent experiences fell into the serious category of meaning and being meaningful to me.
How could I put more fun, or better yet, more play into my life?
In the past I would define or categorize experiences of my work as fun. Fun is also cooking together with my whole family, or with friends. All of that made me happy; was it okay to be happy but not to be playing?
Perhaps I need to look at ways to bring play into all that I do. I know there were times in my life where I enjoyed being silly and without even thinking about it I added some silliness into my mix of work and family and friend interactions.
Somewhere along the line I lost this spontaneity. I really don’t want to work hard at having fun or playing. Therefore I have decided to merely set the intention for adding the concept of play into all that I do.
I will ask myself, “Am I having fun yet?”
If my answer is no, I plan to go on to the next question, which is, “What is fun about this?”
I am sure you have guessed the next question, “How do I inject fun into this?”
It is a process of becoming aware of what I want, and taking responsibility for getting what I want. Are you having the fun you really want? What do you consider fun?
Creatively yours,
Lorraine
