Fun

Much of life today seems to be "putting the cart in front of the horse." For example, expecting a fun time or a happy feeling when the elements of such feelings may be absent. It seems that every time you turn around one of these words is used in a kind of wishful thinking way. Does this have anything to do with being satiated by the things which are supposed to bring us satisfactions but do not?

My memory of early life includes a lot of satisfaction, but few if any accolades for the results that you got if things worked to provide it. Sports, parties & dinners, hobbies and pastimes all combined to provide satisfying times, even through we had much fewer personal resources at our disposal to finance things. Now-a-days everyone from the Dalai Lama to TV and radio commentators and advertisers seems to Hawking happiness or fun ... something is amiss.

I became interested in the derivation of "fun" the other day, and discovered that it is from a mixed bag of descriptors, including the one of making fun of ... It seems that there is something very forced about fun expectation, perhaps the same goes for happiness. Perhaps we had better go back to the activities which might provide one or other, or both. Otherwise we may get waylaid with a cart in the wrong place.