2023-07-31
36 分钟Pushkin.
When I was 10 years old,
I took part in the New Bedford High School Drama Club's production of Peter Pan the Musical.
I was obsessed with Peter Pan, the boy who never grows old,
the boy who got to enjoy the fun and games of childhood forever.
Now that I'm in my 40s,
watching old videos of me belting out songs from that musical is kind of sobering.
My 10-year-old self believed that she'd follow Peter Pan's wise example and never lose the playfulness of youth.
But for the last few years, I was allowing the stresses of adulthood to prevent me from having fun.
So I decided to take on a very personal quest.
I spent a few episodes of this podcast trying to inject a bit more fun back into my adult life.
I did things that pushed me outside my comfort zone,
like taking a surfing lesson and things that were just mindless fun, like singing karaoke.
I carried out a fun audit looking at the kinds of things I like doing and asking myself exactly why I enjoy them.
Turns out I get a kick out of doing absurd stuff with big groups of friends.
My fun factors also include dressing up and goofing around.
Hence my love of Halloween parties and 80 sing-alongs.
And after those two episodes, I've tried to prioritize having more fun.
I started to regularly stage little fun interventions, or fun interventions, as I call them.
I play in little trips, play silly games,