#Microblog Monday 356: Three Kinds of Fun
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REI promised me three kinds of fun, and they delivered maybe one-and-a-half kinds of fun instead. The first is fun that is fun. The second is fun that is only fun in retrospect. I would classify this as not fun. You may be happy that you’ve done something and enjoy the memories, but that isn’t really fun.
For instance, I don’t enjoy the process of writing. I do enjoy having the completed manuscript. Having the completed manuscript does not, in retrospect, make the work fun.
The third type of fun is something that is not fun, even in retrospect. Or something, I assume, other people say is fun but you do not enjoy. Which leaves us with… one (or being generous, one-and-a-half) kind of fun.
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I don’t understand why he included the third type of fun, if it is in no way fun. Unless it’s the “I think it might be fun” but it turns out not to be fun at all.
Writing for me is mostly fun, though sometimes it is not. When it’s going well, though, it is definitely fun. Speaking of which, I need to go finish my No Kidding blog for this week.
How are there three types of fun if the third one is NOT FUN AT ALL? I am befuddled. I get the fun-fun, and the fun-in-retrospect one. Like a particularly challenging hike, or a project that was tough but you finally finish. But the Fun Part III? CHEATING in my book. That’s just called misery. 🙂