When did you stop having fun?

 Dear Peeps,

It is a very simple question - when did you stop having fun? I mean the type of fun that makes you smile until your face hurts or laugh until you cry🤣 (or maybe pee a little).

I realised I stopped having fun quite awhile ago and that is when my mental health issues started.

Fun is different for everyone; for me it includes being a little bit cheeky, breaking the rules (I don't really but I think I am :) and just being me. A childlike me.

Some fun I have had recently includes:

🎠Riding a bucking mechanical bull

🎽Going in the running races with my students at the school athletics carnival (I did not come first or last)

🛴Riding a scooter around the city

These are very simple things but they brought me back to my childhood. The innocent joy of a child is not something you can replace. It is amazing but as we become adults we let this go. We have bills to pay, dishes to wash, kids to look after but what about us? We lose ourselves and we lose our ability to have fun.

I challenge you to try one fun things this week. It does not have to cost you anything. Go on the swing in the park, colour in, do a word find. Find something from your childhood that you loved doing and do it this week. I guarantee you will feel better - I pinkie promise.

I would love to hear what you do for fun (keep it MA rated this time), R rated fun can come later 😉

Love,

Ro