Para Disfrutar

Glaciar Martial, Ushuaia, Argentina

Life is for enjoying. La vida es para disfrutar.

I’ve struggled acknowledging this. It comes from equal parts feeling like life should be hard & some belief that everything in life needs to be done with purpose.

Sometimes when you experience a great catastrophe in life, you’re put on high alert, always ready for the other shoe to drop, ever suspicious that life is too good to be true & an ominous event is just around the corner.

This compounded with a culture hyper-focused on productivity & defining ourselves through achievement has led me to stifle that inner part of me that just wants to have fun. When attempting this fun, there was always a hovering feeling of guilt as if I were participating in some hedonistic act.

Yet it doesn’t have to be so.

Life is complex and simple, as it always has and always will be. While there is much pain & turmoil to solve, there is much joy & fun to be had.

It’s more common to ask someone what they do for work instead of what they do for fun. The latter of the two leaves me without a response more than I would like to admit.

Fortunately, whatever greater life source that is has put people on my path to remember that life is to be enjoyed.

Through the warm & welcoming Argentinean culture, I met friends of a friend of a friend and this group of pibes reminded me of what fun looks like. Dancing. Singing. Just being silly. Loosening up. Enjoying life & not taking it too seriously.

Re agradecida a mis nuevas amistades por recordarme que la vida es para disfrutar.