I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been suspicious of people who don’t have a lot of fun. There’s something wrong with them.

I remember as a youngster an old man of about ninety, who, as long as anybody could remember, had never opened his mouth without complaining about something. As a result he was about as popular as a porcupine in the living room. His relatives didn’t like him, and neither did anyone else. Himself included. And in my book no matter how old a person might get to be, that’s not living.

Then there the people who worry so much about how their houses look, that they never really enjoy it and neither does anyone else. The furniture has to be just so, and you have to spend fifteen minutes making sure your shoes are clean before you dare enter the house. As a result, the number of people (and children) that enter the house gets smaller through the years.

There are the parents who scream at their kids to get better grades in school, who barely managed to sneak though themselves. They’re robbing themselves of a lot of the enjoyment they could be receiving from perfectly normal children and taking a lot of fun out of the youngster’s lives as well.

It seems that people who don’t have a lot of fun in their lives seem to shrivel up; become bitter and introverted.

You’d be surprised at the number of people who feel that if something is pleasant, exciting and a lot of fun, it must be bad. Nothing could be further from the truth. That would be like saying that everything that’s unpleasant must be good for us. A lot of nonsense.

I’m not advocating living just for pleasure, becoming a hedonist is just as bad as never having any fun at all. But having fun is an important part of living, and if you’re not getting your share you might start thinking about it. If your first reaction is to blame someone else, you’re probably on the wrong track.

It’s like people who want to have children but don’t want them running through the house or acting like children. They don’t want children. They want little tiny adults who are just as stuffy as they are.

If you don’t have a lot of fun doing your work, according to career counselors, you would probably be wise to get out of it before the month ends. Your life is too short and too valuable to fritter away on a job that bores you, or forces you to be with people you don’t like, or calls for a knack you haven’t got. But, if you’ve found that you’ve never had any fun in any kind of work you might examine yourself. The trouble may be with you.

Statistics show that happy people are the most productive people. Happy people are far more helpful to others than unhappy people, and that’s one of the big reasons they’re happy people. As I said, I’ve always been suspicious of people who don’t have a lot of fun.

A man named Humboldt once wrote: “I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.”

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