My New Year’s Wish For Your 2018: Please, Have Some Fun

All ready to throw

All I want to do, sang Sheryl Crow, is have some fun. And yet, fun seems out of reach for a lot of us these days.

I found that out over the weekend, when I innocently asked my friends on Facebook to tell me which fun things they had planned for 2018.

I was expecting responses full of vacation places, and concerts, and new skills that my friends wanted to learn.

Nope.

The first answer was essentially a list of the conventions, meetings and networking that my friend planned to do this year.

Okay, that wasn’t going to work.

I knew I had to edit my post, and pronto, or I was going to get a diary dump from all the ambitious people I knew and loved.

This wasn’t going to be Peru and the Grand Canyon and bread baking. It was quickly going to turn into a “whose brand can be built better” contest.

So, I amended it to read, “Not meetings. Not conventions. Actual fun.”

I still got a response from someone who insisted that all those seminars and meetings they planned to conduct were fun, because they were with fun and interesting people.

Yes, but.