Flourish | Day 5

It's Time for Fun!

Play is important for our soul to flourish.

By Catriona Futter

What do you do for fun? Often when I ask that of groups of women, the response is to stare at me as if I am quite mad. Fun? We don’t have time for fun!

Fun, play, silliness, creativity—these usually come naturally to us as children. But when we consider all the different roles and responsibilities we have as adults, our own needs—especially to have fun—fall far down our list of priorities.

What is the cost of this?
How often have you told yourself that you will do something fun when you are less busy? You’ll just get through your to-do list first, or when the kids are a bit older, or once this busy period of work/volunteering/service is over. As women, we are well-scripted to just keep going. It is all too easy to ignore warning signs of irritability, mental, and emotional weariness, and the impact on our increasingly frayed and frazzled souls of not investing in ourselves.