Fun

So for You Capture - Week Seven, our assignment was to take a picture of fun. And I wrote that this seemed like the hardest assignment yet because I wondered where is the fun and I mean FUN in my life?

And when I reread it, I thought I sounded like a fairly unhappy woman. After all, who has to look for the fun in their life? When I thought about it further, I realized that maybe I was equating fun with happiness or contentment. And I am happy and content. I'm just not a laugher. I laugh but not all the time and not about everything. I'm fairly easily amused but very seldom do I break into peals of laughter.

Sometimes when I'm around a group of women and they're all laughing hysterically about something that I think is mildly amusing, I get a little uncomfortable. But you know what? They're having fun. Maybe you have to make some of your own fun.

I know I'm really, really lucky. I have the best family in the world. And I'm really happy about that. I also have a home that I'm comfortable in, a koi pond that I enjoy, all the flower gardens I can handle; and I pretty much get to do everything that I want.....except retire. And I think that's the fly in the ointment. My job. It's too hard, the people I work for are too mean, and the sun and weather are too unkind to my skin.

So to clear the record, I'm happy. But I don't think the world will be a bowl of cherries for me until I retire. And I'm pretty sure at that time I'll be light hearted and everything will be fun.

I can hardly wait.