Step by Step Guide to Having Fun

Introduction

This is a step by step guide to having fun. Too often, at times, I have gone out and seen people not having fun. It could be for a thousand different reasons. But not having fun is a symptom of not being comfortable. The first step is to identify whether you want to be in the place you are. If within the first 5 to 15 minutes you have taken the time to absorb the environment you are in via: the theme, decor, smell, art, small talk, etc, and you aren't having fun, then you can leave. The attempt was made, and the attempt is what matters. If not, you genuinely are interested in being where you are! That's awesome! Few people have fun even though they precisely choose to be where they are! Congrats! Whether it be they already paid for the tickets and have sunk cost fallacy, this is routine for them, or they are with friends and since all of them like it, they stay there, or simply things are on their mind that have nothing to do with the event they are in. Either way, having fun is a state of mind.

Some people listen to music to get to that state of mind, some dance to get to that state of mind, some hear stories to get to that state of mind. It's all up to the person and who they are with.

Performative art is not fun. I've seen this with my own eyes. Men getting together in groups and simply doing the same move over and over. This is ritual. Not fun. Fun is variety. Not the same thing over and over again. That's competitive, if anything. To improve. Fun isn't there to improve, it's there to experience positive change.

How can you tell that you are genuinely having fun?

Gremlins show up, and at times, even return. So I cannot speak to the quality of the movie. But I can speak to the quality of the meme. Whether they are behind you, lurking. Seeing when is the right "accident" trying to get your attention. Simply knowing that woman are trying to get your attention. Woman, in all their gremlin caricature and features, know what fun is. And just like they have a radar for threats, that same radar is used for curiosity.

Time and time again, its never failed to absolutely make the places I go to even more fun.