As kids we were always so excited to grow up and become adults. We would stare in envy about adults' ability to do what they wanted anytime they wanted. They seemed to have so much fun. But as adults we look at children with envy. They're care free attitudes and they're ability to just enjoy anything. Also the fact of not having responsibilities.
When we become adults we tend to focus more on the future and bills. If I can just work this many hours this week I can save up enough money to buy a new car. We focus more so on going to work and then going home. As we start to get our own space or homes we start to focus on work and building our homes. Every day is another project to be done. There's cleaning to do, food to be cooked, home improvement projects to be done; who has time for anything else anymore?
After awhile we get so weighed down by the stress of all these projects we have yet to complete or how many hours we have to put in at work, we become miserable. Why is it as adults that we focus on everything that has to be done instead of actually living our lives?
As kids we had these ideals that we were going to work amazing careers and become famous. We were going to be happy doing what we love. Now we can't always have a career we love but that doesn't mean that we can't enjoy what we love to do anymore.
Adults need to learn how to have fun again.
Its okay to go a day without working on the house. It is okay to go out and enjoy yourself without getting all your projects done. You are letting your life pass you by with having the idea of tomorrow will always be here. We are told that in order to be considered adults that we need to work and build our life up. Why are we so afraid of being considered childish for wanting to have fun?
It's not a bad thing. Even if you have children there is such a thing as taking a night for yourself. You would be teaching them that being an adult isn't all about working your life away, careers aren't the only thing that we have going for us.
Having fun isn't childish. Doing things to distress once in awhile isn't childish. We have to get this ideas out of our heads that we should feel guilty for enjoying ourselves once in a while when our chores aren't done.
Take that drive that you wanted to do but didn't because you had to do laundry. Watch that show that you've been dying to watch but didn't because you had to clean the house. Go out with your friends even though your home improvement projects are still incomplete.
Stop telling yourself that once you get everything done that you can enjoy life a little more. There is always another project another chore waiting around the corner. Our fun doesn't have to end once we graduate college or graduate high school.
One day you are going to be in your sixties looking back at your life now, can you say that you enjoyed it?
Live your life one day at a time. Do the things that make you smile and laugh. Have some fun with it. That way when you actually have to do your projects they don't seem as rough.
